A Delicious Preserve
A historical recipe from Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants, by Jacqueline Harrison Smith (1906).
A historical recipe
Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants, by Jacqueline Harrison Smith (1906). Project Gutenberg eBook #77552.
From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: preserving or pickling, a substance or vessel no longer considered safe. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.
- Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
- Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.
Ingredients 1 ingredient
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
- Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.
Method
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- Pare the rind off of the watermelon and cut in shapes, and if you wish to have it green put it into kettle with alternate layers of grape leaves and small bits of alum.
- Then pour on hot water and let boil 2 hours, then put fruit in weak ginger water and let simmer for 3 hours.
- Then make your syrup, allowing to every pound of fruit 1¼ lbs.
- of sugar, 1 pt.
- of water;
- skim constantly and put in rind.
- Let simmer until tender, take fruit out and boil syrup until quite thick, pour over rind, which place in jars, letting syrup cover them well, and seal.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Chef's knife
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Slotted spoon
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Kettle