This section is from the book "Lessons In Cookery", by Thomas K. Chambers. Also available from Amazon: Lessons In Cookery.
Ingredients. - Six apples. The rind of half a lemon. Sugar. Time required for making, about eight minutes.
To make Apple - Water:
1. Take six apples, peel them, and cut out the cores.
N.B.-When the apples are juicy, six will be sufficient; but more may be required, according to the season of the year.
2. Put a kettle of water on the fire to boil.
3. Cut up the apples in slices.
4. Take half a lemon, wipe it clean in a cloth, and peel it very thin.
5. Put the slices of apple and the lemon-rind into a jug.
6. When the water is quite boiling, pour one quart of it on to the apples in the jug.
7. Sweeten it according to taste.
8. Stand the jug of apple-water aside to cool.
9. When the water is quite cold, strain it into another jug, and it is then ready for use.
 
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