Ingredients
- one pound of sugar
- one night
Directions
Cut a green cantaloupe into any shape you choose, pare off the outside rind, and take out the soft inside. Let the rind stand an hour in cold water. To the rind put a lump of alum
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the size of a nutmeg, and place grape leaves in the bottom of the skillet, and put in the rind and alum, with as much water as will cover them. Put on more leaves, and let them boil slowly till you can run a straw through them, then take them out and lay them on a dish. When cold put the rind in strong ginger tea, and let them stand one night. Make a syrup of ginger tea. To each pound of rind allow one pound of sugar, and boil all together as you do watermelon rind.