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Fashionable Apple Dumplings

From Modern cookery, in all its branches, 1884

Serves 4

Lemon dumplings can be made similarly.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 374. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FASHIONABLE APPLE DUMPLINGS. These are boiled in small knitted or closely- netted cloths (the former have, we think, the prettiest effect), which give quite an ornamental appearance to an otherwise homely dish. Take out the cores without dividing the apples, which should be large, and of a good boiling kind, and fill the cavities with orange or lemon marmalade ; enclose them in a good crust rolled thin

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