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Stewed Dried Apples

Stewed dried apples simmered until tender after soaking overnight.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Stewed Dried Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick over the dried apples and wash them in cold water. Drain.

  2. Soak the apples overnight in enough cold water to cover them.

Stew

  1. Combine the soaked apples and the soaking water in a pot (use an earthenware or well-glazed crock).

  2. Cover the pot and simmer until the apples are tender.

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 apples
Provide the fruit flavor and, once rehydrated and simmered, the soft, tender texture.
Cold water
Rehydrates the dried apples during soaking and forms the liquid they simmer in.

“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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