Take the rind of a nice ripe watermelon--cut it into small strips, and
boil them, till they begin to grow tender, in water, with saleratus and
peach leaves in it, in the proportion of a tea-spoonful of saleratus and
a dozen peach leaves to a couple of quarts of water. Take the rinds out
of the water, and soak them in alum water an hour. Make a syrup,
allowing the same weight of sugar as rinds. When clarified and cooled,
rinse the rinds, and put them in the syrup, together with powdered
ginger, tied up in a small bag. Boil them till they are quite soft--when
partly cooled, add a little essence of lemon. Turn the syrup from them
in the course of two or three days, take out the bags of ginger, and
boil the syrup till there is just sufficient of it to cover the rinds,
and turn it on them while hot.