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Crystallized Fruit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Crystallized Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the sugar in enough water to make a syrup.

  2. Boil the mixture until it reaches syrup consistency.

  3. Place the fruit in a pan and pour the warm syrup over it.

  4. Gently shake the pan to coat the fruit evenly.

  5. Allow the fruit to cool and drain off excess syrup.

  6. Set the pan on its side to let any remaining syrup drain off.

  7. Serve the crystallized fruit once it has cooled completely.

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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