Name: Crab-Apple Jelly
Ingredients: 2 cups water; 2 cups sugar; cheesecloth

Crab-Apple Jelly

Ingredients

2 cups water
2 cups sugar
cheesecloth

Directions

Wash and place apples in a kettle with enough water to cover.
Boil until tender.
Place a piece of cheesecloth in a colander and pour the contents of the kettle into it.
Gather the corners of the cheesecloth and use a potato masher to strain the juice.
Combine 1 cup of sugar for every 2 cups of syrup in a pot.
Boil for 1 hour, stirring until the sugar is dissolved.
Pour into glasses to cool.

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.