Pomelo or Shaddock Preserve

PUBLISHED IN Sunday Times 29 August 1920

Ingredients

Fruit

Crystal sugar

Water

Instructions

Scrape the fruit all over with a piece of glass, scald the fruit for 20 minutes, cut into pieces and carefully remove the pips. Weigh and put into a clean pan and for each 3oz. of fruit put 1/2 pint of clean, coid water and boil gently until soft - about an hour. Remove from fire, and to each pound thus cooked fruit and water add 2lb. crystal sugar. Put on fire and boil slowly till done.

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Submitted by Mrs Robinson, Clifton Street, Bunbury
Mrs W. C. Robinson lived in Clifton Street (reference). Mr Robinson was district superintendent of railways in Bunbury (reference) Mrs Robinson was Aimee Elizabeth Willis from Parramatta, NSW and they were married in 1892 at Parramatta (reference).