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Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Must
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. Cut
  4. a pint of water
  5. Lemon
  6. Cinnamon
  7. a gill of port wine
Contains Sulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Lemon High in vitamin C · Source of protein

    High in vitamin C · 53 mg per 100 g, 66% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Source of protein · 1.1 g per 100 g, 15% of the energy from protein

    • Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Lemons, raw, without peel”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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

  1. Procure a very clean tin stewpan or a small sugar-pan, like M.
  2. Bornbe Glace used ;
  3. it is also from him that I bought mine, which I showed you when you were here ;
  4. it being more preferable for boiling sugar, why I cannot tell, never having asked the reason, being so anxious to know other' things which I thought more serviceable ;
  5. but there must be some cause for him to have used it so continually, as he is such a very clean and precise man in all his manipulations of the produce of sugar stick.
  6. Since I have tried it in a common stewpan, it has answered very well;
  7. and knowing hy experience that your culinary laboratory is still in its innocent infancy, you might be prevented from making an immediate experiment by waiting till you could get one;
  8. you may use that three-pint size stewpan for it, which I lent you for a pattern about three weeks ago, and after which I shall feel extremely gratified by its reappearance on my kitchen shelf at No.
  9. 5, being out of the middle row of them, because every time I enter my kitchen it puts me in mind of a very pretty woman minus one of her front teeth.
  10. Excuse me if I claim it of you, but I want to teach you punctuality as well as economy.
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  12. ff inter x eciTS, like the one our comical friend had.
  13. — To put an end to its long and hard existence, I would cut it into six or eight pieces lengthwise, peel and cut out the cores, giving them a nice shape ;
  14. then put them into a stewpan, with a quarter of a pound of sugar, a gill of port wine, the thin rind of a lemon, a httle cinnamon, and half a pint of water ;
  15. let them simmer gently about an hour or until tender;
  16. when done, put them into a basin reduce the syrup until thickish if required, and pour over ;
  17. when cold they are ready to serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler