Apple juice is a relatively mild-tasting juice, which will be made even milder by diluting with water. Next, ingredients will be added to the diluted juice for you to taste. Some samples might taste...

Apple juice is a relatively mild-tasting juice, which will be made even milder by diluting with water. Next, ingredients will be added to the diluted juice for you to taste. Some samples might taste very strong to you, others might be diffi cult for you to perceive. This varies from person to person since we live in different taste worlds. If necessary, make up a stronger sample of any ingredient that you cannot taste. Work slowly through this experiment. You will fi nd that your ability to identify and describe differences between samples will progress as you proceed. Taste samples several times, going back and forth from one to the next as many times as you need. While diluted apple juice is used to complete this experiment, as you progress through it, think about how the lessons learned using apple juice can be applied to real pastry products such as pie fi llings, coulis, ice cream, even chocolate brownies and cheesecake.