Apple Pumpkin Sauce 1834 Recipe
Looking for a new apple sauce recipe, consider trying this 190-year-old recipe that was published in the Woodstock Mercury on December 5, 1834. According to the author, the result is fit to serve the President of the United States - or the President of a bank - or a Mrs. President of a knitting society.
“Take a good ripe pumpkin, pare and slice it into pieces as nearly resembling quarters of apples as you can; stew the pumpkin thus prepared in a sufficient quantum of boiled cider to cover it for thirty minutes - then add a quantity of apples pared and quartered, equal to the pumpkin. Stew the whole for thirty-minutes longer, and it is all done.”