Apple-water
Ingredients
Directions
Roast several apples.
Place the roasted apples in a small pitcher.
Pour enough boiling water over the apples to fill the pitcher.
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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What each ingredient does
- Apples
- Roasting concentrates their sugars and flavor, which carry into the water as a gentle aroma.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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