Name: Watermelon Preserve
Ingredients: watermelon rind; green food coloring; spices (as per spiced watermelon pickle recipe); brandy (as per brandied green gages recipe)

Watermelon Preserve

Ingredients

watermelon rind
green food coloring
spices (as per spiced watermelon pickle recipe)
brandy (as per brandied green gages recipe)

Directions

Prepare the watermelon rind by removing the outer green skin.
If a deep color is desired, add green food coloring.
Follow the directions for spiced watermelon pickle or brandied green gages for further preparation.

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.