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How to Serve a Water-melon

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

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 platter with fresh, clean 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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What each ingredient does

Watermelon
Provides the juicy, sweet pulp that is the centerpiece of the dish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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