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Fruit Tablets

Fruit tablets are sweetened fruit confections made by boiling sugar and fruit pulp, then cooling and cutting into pieces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Fruit Tablets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make ½ pound of fruit pulp.

  2. Boil 2 pounds of sugar as directed in the previous article.

  3. Combine the fruit pulp with the boiled sugar and finish as directed.

  4. When cold, cut into 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

Fruit
Provides the flavor and aroma, and the moisture that becomes the pulp.
Sugar
Provides sweetness and, once boiled, sets firm as it cools into tablets.

“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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