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Apple Water

Apple Water is a chilled beverage made by simmering an apple in water and sweetening the resulting juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Apple Water

Apple Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Pare and quarter the apple, leaving the core intact.

  2. Place the apple in a stew kettle with the cold water.

  3. Cook slowly until the apple breaks down into pieces.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain the mixture through a coarse bag, pressing to extract juice.

  2. Strain again through a finer bag, sweeten to taste, and cool before serving.

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

Apple
Provides the fruit flavor and the juice that the drink is built on.
Sweetener
Adds sweetness, adjusted to taste after straining.

“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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