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Apple Sauce Canned in Quart Jars

A preserved apple sauce made by cooking apples, adding sugar, and canning the puree in sterilized quart jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Apple Sauce Canned in Quart Jars

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Pare and core the apples.

  2. Cook the apples in a small amount of water until soft.

  3. Press the cooked apples through a colander or strainer and measure the puree.

Sweeten and can

  1. Add ½ cup sugar to the 2 cups of apple puree.

  2. Bottle the mixture in hot sterilized jars, half seal them, and sterilize for 12 minutes.

  3. Serve the canned apple sauce as cold as possible.

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 + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the bulk and pectin-rich pulp that becomes the sauce.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the apples.

“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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