Mock Preserved Ginger

Ingredients

• some small carrots
• 1 quart of water
• 2 lbs. loaf sugar
• 2 oz. of whole ginger
• the rind of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Boil carrots until tender, soak in cold water for several days, changing water daily.

2. 2

   Add water, sugar, ginger, and lemon rind to prepared carrots, boil for 15 minutes each day until it begins to set, add cayenne essence on the last day, jar, and cover with parchment.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice cookery (1888) by H. M. Young, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOCK PRESERVED GINGER, Boil some small carrots until tender, then take out the hearts, allow these to stand in cold water for several days until they have lost their vegetable flavour, changing the water each day ; then add to each pound of prepared carrots 1 quart of water and 2 lbs. loaf sugar, 2 oz. of whole ginger, and the rind of a lemon

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