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To Prepare Apples For Pies

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Apples
  2. Water
  3. Sugar
  4. Cut
  5. an ounce of butter
  6. Nutmeg
  7. Rosewater

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 540.
  2. Pare and core your apples, cut them in slices, and throw them into cold water.
  3. Then take them out of the water, put them into a stew-pan ;
  4. if the apples are tender, the water which adheres to them wrill be sufficient to cook them ;
  5. if not, a little more may be added.
  6. Cover the stew-pan, and place them near the fire.
  7. Let them stew till they are soft and burst ;
  8. then mash them, and add half an ounce of butter to each pint of the stewed ap- pie.
  9. When they get nearly cold, add sugar, rosewater, and nutmeg to the taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The national cook book (1856), printed page 268, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/nationalcookbook00pete

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.