Watermelon Rind Preserve

Ingredients

• a handful of lime
• let it stay in the weak lime-water one day
• one and a half pounds of sugar
• a half pint of water to each pound of sugar
• each pound of rind

Method

1. 1

   Soak the watermelon rind in weak lime-water for one day.

2. 2

   Then, soak it for a few hours, followed by scalding in alum water with grape leaves for ten minutes.

3. 3

   Afterward, boil the rind in strong ginger tea until soft.

4. 4

   Prepare a syrup with sugar and water, cook slowly, skim, and add the rind until clear and transparent.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a handful of lime, stir it in, and when it settles clear, pour it over the water- melon rind you in tend preserving; let it stay in the weak lime-water one day. Soak it a few hours, and get the taste of the lime from the rind, then put it in alum water and scald for ten minutes. Put grape- leaves in with the alum water while scalding ; they will make the rind green. Take the rind from the alum, and put it in cold water for a few hours, and when 21 « LA CUISINE CREOLE. cold, boil it in stroiig ginger tea until it is soft, and tastes of the ginger. Make the syrup of one and a half pounds of sugar, to each pound of rind, and a half pint of water to each pound of sugar

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.