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Nature_Brooke

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jan. 9, 2012

love this recipe...i did adjust it alittle however. I used the whole apple but cored it. boiled for an hour and took some advice and let it soak in the fidge over night..I did add 1/3 cup of cugar because my apples werent that sweet. My 5 month old loves it!!! Thanks very much!!!!

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cindy

Reviewed: Oct. 26, 2011

Hmm, I did not care for this. I can see me loving something like this, if it was Depression Era time. It honestly, tasted like what it was water, sugar, and tart apple peels. Making homemade apple juice or cider can be done very easily with a small counter top juicer. It tastes so much better than the store if you have not tried it. Plus, it is just pure apples. The whole point of apple juice, if it is good, is it doesn't need any sugar. I just thought I would test this recipe because I had some peels and apple cores from an apple tart recipe. I guess my apple scraps will continue to go into the compost pile as usual.

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Baker Bee

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Living In: Richmond, Virginia, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 26, 2011

This is a great idea to use up the bits you would otherwise waste and I suspect that the apple variety used makes a huge difference, but I used the cores and peels from 4 pink lady apples in 4 cups of water and it tasted quite insipid after an hour of simmering and definitely didn't need any sugar. I ended up leaving the pot to sit overnight and it was like slightly diluted juice in the morning. I'll make this again, but with a higher ratio of peel to water for a really appple-ey flavour.

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Louiselombard

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Westville, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Reviewed: Sep. 24, 2011

The concept of this recipe is great, especially because I hate waste and it gives me an opportunity to use up all the scraps from apple pies, etc BUT we did find it to be a bit sweet so what I did was add some lemon juice to bring down that sweetness a bit. Of course that may have just been because of the apples I was using (red delicious) and will vary from apple to apple and time of the year. Ours also got a much rosier color than that of the one displayed in the picture which was very pretty in our pitcher at our fall party. ;) Hope this helps!

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