Name: Watermellon Rind Preserves
Ingredients: 1 lb Watermelon cubes; 2 ts Water; 2 tb Lime (calcium oxide); 2 c Sugar; 1 ts Water; 1/2 Lemon, sliced

One day as I was passing into the field…this sentence fell upon my soul. Thy righteousness is in heaven. And…I saw with the eyes of my soul Jesus Christ at God’s right hand; there, I say, was my righteousness; so that wherever I was, or whatever I was doing, God could not say of me, he [lacks] my righteousness, for that was just before him. I also saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, “The same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed. I was loosed from my afflictions and irons; my temptations also fled away; so that from that time those dreadful scriptures of God left off to trouble me; now went I also home rejoicing for the grace and love of God.

John Bunyan

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Desserts	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Watermelon cubes
2	ts	Water
2	tb	Lime (calcium oxide)
2	c	Sugar
1	ts	Water
1/2		Lemon, sliced

INSTRUCTIONS

Contributed to the echo by: Merrilyn Vaughan WATERMELON RIND PRESERVES 1.
Soak melon in limewater for 3+ 1/2 hours. Drain. 2. Soak in clear water for
1 hour. Drain. 3. Cover with water and boil for 1+ 1/2 hour. Drain. 4. Make
syrup fo2 c. sugar and 1 quart water. 5. Add rind and boil for 1 hour. 6.
As syrup thickens add lemon [half ob. for each lb. of melon]. 7. When syrup
is thick and rind clear, pack in hot, sterilized jars,
top with syrup and seal.

A Message from our Provider:

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. #C.S. Lewis”