Preparation time: 45 minutes Serves: 8 6 apples       ½ cup white sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon    2/3 cup boiling water      1/3-cup butter       1-cup molasses      2¾ cups flour  1½ tsp. baking soda ½ tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. ginger ¼ tsp. cloves 1 egg well beaten     Slice apples into a 9 x 9 well [...]

1 lb. of apples, 1 gill of water, 1-1/2 oz. of sugar (or more, according to taste), 1/2 a teaspoonful of mixed spice. Pare and core the apples, cut them up, and cook them with the water until quite mashed up, add sugar and spicbe served cold.