Nutmeg and Small Melons
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the melons with a brush and chill thoroughly.
Cut the melons in half and scoop out the seeds.
Serve the melons on a bed of cracked ice and garnish with foliage.
Serve one melon to each person if small, or half a melon if large.
Do not put ice into the seed cavity to preserve the flavor.
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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