CRYSTALLISED PUMMELO SKIN
Ingredients:
skins of two large pummelos (cut into one-inch slices, or cubed after removing outside skin)
4 lbs white sugar
4 cups water
2 tsp vanilla essence.
Method:
Lightly peel outside skin of pummelos.
In a large saucepan boil water, put in pummelos to boil. When soft, drain and press out water.
To make syrup - boil 4 cups water, add 6 cups white sugar. Let boil for ½ hour, add vanilla essence, add pummelo skin. Keep checking that it doesn't dry or burn.
Line a flat dish with greaseproof paper. In another dish put white sugar. When pummelo is ready, add 2 pieces at a time in the sugar - roll and sprinkle until pieces are well-coated with sugar.
Put in the sun to dry for a few days, turn over at intervals to dry on other side. Store in airtight containers.
DATE: July 1992
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