Stewed Apples

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• the syrup may be flavored with lemon juice
• tart apples

Method

1. 1

   Make a syrup with sugar and water.

2. 2

   Boil slowly for 10 minutes, then skim.

3. 3

   Pare, core, and quarter the apples, cook until soft in the syrup, then take them out carefully.

4. 4

   Boil the syrup until almost a jelly and pour over the apples.

5. 5

   Serve cold.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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