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Excellent Syrup of Apples

From The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened, 1910

This method can also be used for damsons or other plums.

Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EXCELLENT SYRUP OF APPLES Slice a dozen or twenty Pippins into thin slices, and lay them in a deep dish, stratum super stratum, with pure double refined Sugar in powder. Put two or three spoonfuls of water to them

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.