Name: Apple Water
Ingredients: 4 tart apples; 1 quart boiling water

Apple Water

Ingredients

4 tart apples
1 quart boiling water

Directions

Roast the apples carefully, preserving all the juice.
Place the roasted apples in a pitcher and pour the boiling water over the apples.
Let the mixture cool before serving.
Sweeten or flavor to taste if desired.

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

Tart apples: Provide the main flavor and aroma, with tartness that sweetening can balance.
Boiling water: Extracts flavor and moisture from the roasted apples into the liquid.

“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.