Name: Apple Water
Ingredients: 2 large apples; 1 quart boiling water

Apple Water

Ingredients

2 large apples
1 quart boiling water

Directions

Cut the apples into slices.
Pour the boiling water over the apple slices.
Let the mixture stand for three hours.
Strain the mixture and it is ready for use.

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

Apples: Provide the flavour and aroma that the water takes on during steeping.
Boiling water: Extracts flavour and aroma from the apple slices as it steeps.

“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.