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How to Serve a Water Melon

A method for chilling and presenting a watermelon with grape leaves and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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How to Serve a Water Melon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chill the watermelon on ice.

  2. Cover the inner part of a serving dish with fresh grape leaves.

Serve

  1. Place the watermelon in the center and cut it in half, letting the ends fall back to show the pulp and seeds.

  2. Serve with a spoon, scooping out symmetrical, egg-shaped pieces.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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