Preserved Citron Melon

Ingredients

• five pounds citron melon
• three pounds sugar
• nine lemons
• two ounces green ginger root
• one teaspoon powdered alum

Method

1. 1

   Peel melon and cut into rather thin slices, boiling until clear and tender in water containing the alum.

2. 2

   Drain and wash in cold water.

3. 3

   Have ready a syrup prepared by cooking together the sugar and juice of eight of the lemons, adding grated rinds of three and the ginger root, and cooking until clear and rather thick.

4. 4

   Place in it the citron melon with one sliced lemon; place the melon in heated jars; pour into them the boiling syrup and seal while hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PRESERVED CITRON MELON To five pounds citron melon take three pounds sugar, nine lemons, two ounces green ginger root, and one tea- spoon powdered al

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