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Apple Drink

A simple beverage made by boiling apples in water, then straining the liquid.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Apple Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the apples into halves or quarters, keeping the skins, pits, cores, and seeds.

  2. Boil the apples in the water until they become tasteless.

  3. Strain the liquid and serve warm or cold.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the fruit flavor and natural sugars that make up the juice.
Water
Extracts flavor and color from the apples and carries them into the liquid during boiling.

The step that matters

Boil the apples until they become tasteless. Boiling extracts flavor and pectin from the fruit, but overboiling drives off aroma and dulls the juice. Watching the apples rather than the clock helps keep the flavor bright.

“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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