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Snow Watermelon

A chilled watermelon served with crushed ice that resembles snow.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ice "snow" 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
Forms the juicy, sweet base and the cool, moist flesh of the dish.
Ice
Crushed into snow, it adds cold and a light, quickly melting texture.

The step that matters

Placing the ice snow on each slice. Ice melts quickly on warm fruit, so the snow loses its fine texture and waters down the slices if it sits too long. Adding it just before serving keeps it fluffy and cold.

“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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