Candied Citron
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the citron peels in half.
Soak the peels in water for 2 hours.
Change the water and soak for another 2 hours.
Repeat until the water is no longer bitter.
Drain the peels and place them in saturated hot syrup until soft and partly transparent.
Remove the peels and dry them.
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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