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Vermicelli Chestnuts for Dessert

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 6

Simmering time is about 20 minutes.

Presented as published in 1892. 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 Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2213. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vermicelli Chestnuts for Dessert. — Peel the brown skin from twenty fine chestnuts. Put them in a saucepan, and cover with water. When they begin to be hot, take off the second skin very carefully. Put them into a preser\ing-pan, cover with thin syrup, and simmer gently tiU tender. Take them up, and put them upon a dish. Tlirow into the sjTup two or three inches of thin lemon- rin

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