Name: How to Serve Melons
Ingredients: 1 watermelon; brandy (optional)

How to Serve Melons

Ingredients

1 watermelon
brandy (optional)

Directions

Prepare

Keep the watermelon in a cool place before serving.
Cut a piece from each end of the watermelon.
Cut the melon in a zig‑zag shape down the center to divide it in half.
Set each half on a dish with a napkin.

Serve

When ready to serve, cut the melon into slices.

Brandy variation

For a variation, cut a plug out of the melon, pour in a glass of brandy, and replace the plug.
Keep the melon cool and turn it occasionally for 24 hours to absorb the brandy.

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.