TO MAKE CANDIED PEEL.
Save the skins of oranges and lemons. [Soak them in slightly-salted water for three or four days. Drain and boil in clean water till soft; try with a skewer. Make a syrup by boiling 2 cupfuls of sugar with the cupful of water for five minutes. Put the peel, which should have been drained again., in a basin; pour the syrup over it. Let it stand for five or six days, then strain off the syrup and boil it up. Next, put the peel into the boilings syrup and boil till it looks clean, for 15 or 20 minutes. Then spread the peel on a flat dish, put a little of the syrup in each hollow; sprinkle fine sugar .over it and allow it to dry in a cool oven .or in sunshine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 6 (Supplement)
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137TO MAKE CANDIED PEEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 6 (Supplement)
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