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Keeping Apple Cider Sweet By the Home-canning Method

This recipe preserves fresh apple cider sweetened with sugar by canning in sterilized jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cider are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,238 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Keeping Apple Cider Sweet By the Home-canning Method

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Fill fruit jars with fresh apple cider.

  2. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar to each quart.

  3. Place rubber and cap in position and partially tighten.

Sterilize and seal

  1. Sterilize in a hot-water bath for 10 minutes, in a water-seal outfit for 8 minutes, in a steam-pressure outfit under 5 pounds of steam for 4 minutes, or in an aluminum pressure cooker for 2 minutes.

  2. Remove jars, tighten covers, invert to cool, and test joints.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Apple + cidertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Cider + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Fresh apple cider
Forms the main liquid and carries the flavor of the finished canned cider.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tartness of the apple cider.

“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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