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To Preserve Citron

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Citron

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare the citrons and cut them into slices about 1.5 inches thick.

  2. Cut the slices into strips of the same thickness, leaving them the full length of the fruit.

  3. Remove all the seeds with a small knife.

  4. Weigh the prepared citron and add an equal weight of white sugar to it.

  5. Make a syrup with the sugar and citron.

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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