Name: Apple Water
Ingredients: ½ pound dried apples; 3 pints boiling water

Apple Water

Ingredients

½ pound dried apples
3 pints boiling water

Directions

Prepare

Wash the dried apples quickly in cold water.
Place the apples in a porcelain pitcher.
Add 3 pints of boiling water to the pitcher.

Steep

Cover the pitcher and stir occasionally.
Let the mixture steep for 2 hours.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Dried apples: Provide the main apple flavor and sweetness as they steep into the water.
Boiling water: Extracts flavor and color from the dried apples through steeping.

“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.