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Snow Watermelon

A chilled watermelon served with crushed ice resembling snow.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Snow Watermelon

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the heart from a chilled watermelon and cut it into thick slices.

  2. Pound a piece of ice in a clean bag until it resembles snow.

  3. Chill plates in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Place a heaping tablespoon of the crushed ice on each slice of watermelon.

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 juicy, sweet flesh forms the cold base that the snowy ice rests on.
Ice
Crushed into snow, it adds a cold, fluffy topping that chills the watermelon slices.

“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.

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