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Pleasant and Beneficial Drink in Fever

A simple drink made by steeping dried sour apples in boiling water, served cooled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Pleasant and Beneficial Drink in Fever

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the dried sour apples clean.

  2. Place the apples in a quart pitcher and fill the pitcher with boiling water.

  3. Let it cool; it's ready to drink, with or without ice.

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

Dried sour apples
Provide the tart apple flavor that gives the drink its character and steeps into the water.

“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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