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Chestnuts, Compote of

From Harper's cook book encyclopædia, 1902

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chestnuts, Compote of. — Boil the chestnuts for eight minutes, remove the husks and skins, place in a sauce- pan % lb. of granulated sugar and a gill of water. When it comes to a boil, drop in the chestnuts and let them remain until they have ab- sorbed all the syrup ; take them out, arrange high on a glass dish, squeeze over them the juice of half a lemon

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