Baked Stuffed Musk Melon

Ingredients

• a Melon
• two onions
• sufficient mutton
• 2 table-spoonfuls of washed and dried rice
• the same quantity each of blanched and skinned almonds
• the same quantity each of pistachios
• 1 table-spoonful of washed currants
• salt and pepper to taste
• a lump of butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut the stalk off the melon, scoop out the seeds and some inside.

2. 2

   Mince onions and mutton, fry until brown, then add rice, almonds, pistachios, currants, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   Stuff the melon, replace the stalk, fasten with skewers, bake in a moderate oven, and serve on an embellished dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 508. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked stuffed Musk Melon. — Cut the stalk part off a Melon, leaving an opening about Sin. in diameter (the stalk part will afterwards be used as a lid), and scoop out all the seeds and part of the inside. Finely mince two onions and sufficient mutton to fill the Melon. Put the mince into a deep frying-pan, with a lump of butter, and fry till brown ; then put in 2 table-spoonfuls of washed and dried rice, the same quantity each of blanched and skinned almonds and pistachios, 1 table-spoonful of washed currants, and salt and pepper to taste

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