Excerpt from How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing That Fruit The Evil One, who first o 'ered apples to our universal mother, exemplified his serpent-like sapience by tempting her to try them off the tree: this, notwithstanding the enthusiasm we entertain for the culinary art, is unquestionably the no plus ultra of epicurism in apple-eating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."