Green Grenadilla Preserve

Ingredients

• about fifty grenadillas
• a tablespoonful of lime
• 6 cups of water
• 6 lbs. sugar
• a tablespoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Prepare grenadillas by cutting and soaking in lime water overnight.

2. 2

   Boil in fresh water with salt until soft.

3. 3

   Prepare syrup with sugar and water, boil and skim.

4. 4

   Cool syrup, then soak grenadillas overnight.

5. 5

   Boil gently until syrup thickens.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Grenadilla Preserve. — Green grenadillas (a species of passion-flower well known in Natal, the Eastern Piovince, the Paarl, etc.) make a very good preserve as follows. Take about fifty grenadillas when the peel is still soft, cut a cross at one end, and scrape or peel very thinly. Take about a tablespoonful of lime and mix with cold water; lay the fruit in a deep bowl, cover with this lime water for one night ; then for a night in fresh water. The third day boil in fresh water, to which a tablespoon ful of salt has been added to make it rather brackish — boiling for ^ Syrup made of sugar the same weight as fruit, as for all preserves. 176 FISH. GARDENING. PORK A?/ir. o about ten minutes till you can easily pierce the fruit with a reed or straw. When the grenadillas have thus been parboiled, and are quite soft, put them for a few minutes in very cold water while preparing the syrup, which is made as follows. To 6 lbs. sugar for every 50 grenadillas, put 6 cups of water

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