Apple Pie

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
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The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
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success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (15)
crust
filling
syrup
enrichment (optional)
glaze (after baking)
Instructions (11)
  1. Make a good puff-paste crust and put it round the edge of your dish.
  2. Pare and quarter your apples, and take out the cores.
  3. Lay a thick row of apples, and put in half the sugar you intend to use for your pie.
  4. Mince a little lemon-peel fine, spread it over the sugar and apples, and squeeze in a little juice of a lemon.
  5. Scatter a few cloves over it, and lay on the rest of your apples and sugar, with another small squeeze of the juice of a lemon.
  6. Boil the parings of the apples and cores in some water, with a blade of mace, till the flavour is extracted.
  7. Strain the liquid, put in a little sugar, and boil it till it is reduced to a small quantity.
  8. Pour the reduced liquid into your pie.
  9. Put on your crust, and send it to the oven.
  10. You may add to the apples a little quince or marmalade, which will greatly enrich the flavor.
  11. When the pie comes from the oven, beat up the yolks of two eggs, with
Original Text
Apple Pie. MAKE a good puff-paste crust, and put it round the edge of your dish. Pare and quarter your apples, and take out the cores. Then lay a thick row of apples, and put in half the sugar you intend to use for your pie. Mince a little lemon-peel fine, spread it over the sugar and apples, and squeeze in a little juice of a lemon, then scatter a few cloves over it, and lay on the rest of your apples and sugar, with another small squeeze of the juice of a lemon. Boil the parings of the apples and cores in some water, with a blade of mace, till the flavour is extracted; strain it, put in a little sugar, and boil it till it is reduced to a small quantity: then pour it into your pie, put on your crust, and send it to the oven. You may add to the apples a little quince or marmalade, which will greatly enrich the flavor. When the pie comes from the oven, beat up the yolks of two eggs, with
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