Ingredients
- three apples added
Directions
Directions. — Peel thinly, quarter, and core the apples, and place them in a brown jar. Mix the sugar and water, and pour it over the apples. Place the jar in a saucepan of water, which should boil two hours. Boiled rice may be served with the apples, or they may be eaten with bread.
English people eat too little fruit. It should constantly form part of our meals ; and for this purpose stewed fruit is the most wholesome. Children who do not get enough of the salts contained in fruit and vegetables, often eat hard green apples, gooseberries, and other unripe fruit. These, as well as injured and over-ripe plums, &c., cause diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera, from which thousands of children die every year.
This plan of stewing in a jar is best, because the fruit will neither boil nor burn when cooked in a jar. Although the water around it in the saucepan boils, the contents of the jar only simmer slowly, which cooks the fruit in the most perfect way. You may stew plums, blackberries (with two or three apples added), rhubarb, gooseberries, &c., in the same way.