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Pomegranates

A dish of pomegranate seeds served with finely chopped ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pomegranates

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the outer skin of the pomegranate.

  2. Carefully take out the seeds, discarding the thin brown skin.

Serve

  1. Heap the seeds on a serving dish.

  2. Mix the seeds with finely chopped ice and serve.

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

Pomegranate
Provides the fresh, tart-sweet seeds that make up the dish.
Ice
Keeps the seeds cold and adds a crisp, chilled texture.

“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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