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Dudley describes the process of making molasses from apples, consisting of grinding and pressing the apples and then boiling the juice until it is three-quarters evaporated and has the consistency of molasses. Apple molasses was discovered by J Chandler in Woodstock [Connecticut?].

Subject: Agriculture

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a new sort of molosses made of apples; and of the degenerating of smelts'.

Written by Dudley in Roxbury, New England [now part of Boston, Massachusetts]. Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1723.

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CLP/10iii/43
Earliest possible date
25 October 1722
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Ink on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Paul Dudley

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Paul Dudley, Paper, 'An account of a new sort of molosses [sic] made of apples' by Paul Dudley, 25 October 1722, CLP/10iii/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_43/paper-an-account-of-a-new-sort-of-molosses-sic-made-of-apples-by-paul-dudley, accessed on 18 March 2025

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