Water-melon Preserve with Dry Sugar

Ingredients

• 5 lbs. sugar
• 6 lbs. fruit

Method

1. 1

   Prick and lay the fruit in lime for a night.

2. 2

   Rinse in fresh water in the morning, parboil the peel in boiling water, then drain without squeezing.

3. 3

   Add sugar to the hot fruit and let it simmer for about half-an-hour.

4. 4

   Let it stand overnight, then preserve the next day.

5. 5

   If the syrup seems too little, add more syrup made from equal parts of sugar and water, then preserve until the fruit is clear and the syrup is thick.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Water-melon Preserve with, dry Sugar. — Prick and lay in lime for a night like the peel for any other mode of making the same preserve. Rinse in fresh water in the morning, 62 AT J AAR. LEMBTJES SAUCE AND COMPYT Feb. parboil, putting the peel into water that is boiling; drain but don’t squeeze. ’ To 5 lbs. sugar add 6 lbs. fruit

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