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 buttered pan or pie plate. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Melt butter in water, add [...]

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.