Citron Preserves

Ingredients

• melon
• as much sugar as there is melon by weight
• two sliced lemons to each pound of fruit

Method

1. 1

   Pare off rind, seed, and cut the citron into thin slices.

2. 2

   Boil in water for one hour, then add sugar to the water in the kettle and boil until quite thick.

3. 3

   Replace the citron, add sliced lemons, boil for twenty minutes, take out, boil syrup until very thick, and pour it over the fruit.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CITRON PRESERVES. Pare off rind, seed, cut in thin slices two inches long, weigh, and put in preserving kettle with water enough to cover; boil one hour, take out the melon, and to the water in kettle add as much sugar as there is melon by weight, boil until quite thick, replace melon, add two sliced lemons to each pound of fruit

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