This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
The Jelly-making quality of apples, varies greatly; crab apples yield the strongest and clearest; some seeding varieties, good for nothing else, make the best jelly; i pound of sugar , 1 pound of fruit and 1/2 pint water, boiled, strained through flannel, tested by cooling, and, if not firm, boiled a longer time. (See jellies).
Puff paste laid on a pie plate as if for a pie; a mark like a lid cut around near the edge with the point of a knife; when baked and risen the lid lifted off and inside filled with compote apples.
A mould of stiffened apple marmalade; served with custard.
A mould of gelatine-stiffened apple marmalade covered with apricot marmalade.
Mlro-ton de Pommes ored apples, not divided, carefully cooked in syrup, drained, garnished in a dish with dried or glace fruits; red, currant jelly diluted with wine poured over.
Apple paste cut in pieces, breaded and fried.
Marmalade dried down gradually in a cool oven till it can be spread out in a sheet like a piece of dough, cut in any shape, rolled in powdered. sugar; variously colored and flavored, this apple paste is used by bakers to ornament cakes, and is sold as candy in various fancy forms.
A layer of apple sauce on a slice of bread, covered with a layer of whipped cream.
A breakfast dish, also served with all forms of pork; commonly sliced without paring or coring; the peel helping to preserve their shape the slices are simply fried a few at a time in frying (saule) pans with a spoonful or two of pork fat or butter, and when brown on one side are turned over one by one; large quantities can be done in the oven if not too many in the pans at once.
Same way as broiled potatoes; slices done in the double-wire broiler, buttered while cooking.
Fried slices, same as with spareribs and pork tenderloin; this is the German as well as American habit; the Flemings eat baked apples with black puddings.
A thick layer of chopped apples spread upon a thin sheet of short paste or biscuit dough, rolled up, tied in a cloth at both ends and in the middle, boiled or steamed an hour or lbnger; served with rich sauce.
The preceding egged over and baked with a greased paper cover over; crust needs to be richer.
Whole (pared) apples cooked in syrup under cover in the oven; when done, each side colored with red jelly, syrup condensed with wine poured over cold.
One pint Rhine wine, 1 pound sugar, 1 pound apples stewed and mashed through a colander, gelatine to set it, colored pink, moulded; eaten cold.
 
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