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Dried Apple Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,230 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dried Apple Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the dried apples in plenty of cold water overnight or for several hours until tender.

  2. For evaporated apples, soak in just enough water to cover for about 15 minutes.

  3. Wash strung dried apples carefully before soaking.

  4. Boil the soaked apples in the same water, cooking steadily and stirring often.

  5. Add the dried rind of one orange for every quart of apples and boil together.

  6. Keep the pot covered while cooking.

  7. Once soft, rub the mixture through a vegetable strainer and let it cool.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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