HOME CANDIED PEEL
A TESTED METHOD. Remove the pith from lemon and orange sking and soak the skins in slightly salted water for 3 or 4 days. Drain and boil in clean water until soft, when tried with a skewer. It is essential that that should be quite as soft as required, as they will not soften after suger is added. Then make a syrup by boiling 2 cups sugar and 1 cup water for 5 minutes. (This amount of sugar will do 1J dozen medium-sized halves.) Put the peel, which has been drained again, into a basin, and pour over it the hot syrup. Put a weighted saucer on top, to keep the peel under the syrup. Let this stand 4 or 5 days; then strain off the syrup and boil it up. When boiling pop the peel back into -it, and boil for 15 minutes or until the peel looks clear. Then spread the peel out on a flat dish, and beat the syrup as if for coconut ice, until it thickens a little. Put a little of this syrup into each hollow in the peel, sprinkle fine sugar over it, and dry in the sun and wind. It must be quite dry before storing, or it may ferment after several weeks. \
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 8
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