Name: Water Melon with Brandy
Ingredients: 1 large ripe watermelon; 1 pint brandy

Water Melon with Brandy

Ingredients

1 large ripe watermelon
1 pint brandy

Directions

Prepare

Cut a 2‑inch square piece from the center of the watermelon, 3 inches deep.
Carefully remove the piece and pour in the brandy.
Replace the piece of watermelon and refrigerate for 6 hours to infuse.

Serve

Serve whole or cut into slices.

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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What each ingredient does

Watermelon: Its flesh holds the brandy and provides the juicy, sweet body of the dish.
Brandy: Soaks into the watermelon flesh during chilling, adding alcohol flavour and aroma.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.