Apple Ginger

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pound of whole ginger
• three pounds of sugar
• a pint and a half of water
• the juice of three lemons
• three pounds of apples

Method

1. 1

   Boil ginger, sugar, water, and lemon juice together.

2. 2

   Add apples and simmer until clear but not broken.

3. 3

   Store in a covered jar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Ginger, — Boil gently together a quarter of a pound of whole ginger bruised, three poimds of sugar, a pint avA a half of water, and the juice of three lemons."' Bring it to the boil- ing point, then put in three pounds of apples weighed after they have been pared and cored. Simmer them gently, and let them remain until the apples have become clear, but be careful that they are not broken. They must be kept in a covered jar in a dry place, and -^dll keep good for some time. Time, three-quarters of an hour, to boil the apples. Probable cost. Is. 8d. Sufficient for nine or ten persons. Apple Ginger (another way). — Imitation OF Preserved Ginger. — Take four pounds of apples, weighed after they have been pared and cored, and cut them into quarters : make a syrup of two pounds of sugar boiled in one pint of water, and pour it over the fruit. Let the apples stand in this two days ; then add four pounds of loaf sugar, and the chopped rind and juice of three lemons. Put into a muslin bag two ounces of bruised ginger, and half a tea- spoonful of cayenne. Let all simmer until the fi-uit is soft, but not broken, and the juice clear: add a glass of gin. Time to sinuner, about an hour. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Sufficient for four one-pound jars. Apple Ginger (another way). — Pare, core, and slice three pounds of hard apples. Put them into a httle cold water, to preserve the colour, until they arc required. Boil to a syrup three pounds of loaf sugar and a pint and a half of water

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