Crystallized Fruit

Crystallized Fruit...

...make some for the holidays...

Photo: Xose Castro

Make a syrup of 1 pound sugar (!) and 1/2 cup of water. Boil without stirring until a drop put into iced water becomes immediately brittle. Remove from the fire and set it into an outer pan of boiling water. Add to the syrup the juice of 1/4 lemon. Run the prongs of a piece of fruit to be candied, dip it into the hot syrup and lay on buttered paper to dry.

FROM: The “Weis Recipe Outfit” Box on display at the Canton Township Historical Museum, Canton, Michigan (Donated: 1984), circa 1921.