Foods of England - Fruit Chips

Fruit Chips

Fruit and Vegetables
Historic

Segments of fruit (apple, apricot etc) fried. Before the 19th Century the term ‘chips’ universally refers to fruit chips.

For the modern usage, see: Potato Chips

Original Receipt from The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director By Prof. R Bradley, 1728

To make Orange-Chips.

Take some fresh Oranges about February, and pare them very thin; they are then very cheap. Boil them in several Waters till they are tender, and have lost their Bitterness; then put them into cold Water for twelve Hours or more. Then make a Syrup for them in the following manner. Take about their weight of fine Sugar powder’d, and mix it with as much Water as it will take in, or a little more. Boil this, and scum it well; then drain the Orange-Peels from the Water they were steep’d in, and put them in a glaz’d earthen Vessel, and then pour the boiling hot Syrup upon them, letting them remain so till the Day following; then pour the Syrup from them, and boil it afresh, and pour it on a second time, and repeat the same work till your Peels are very clear, and the Syrup very thick; and then dry them in a Stove, and they will be fit for use, in the Condition we buy them. One may candy Lemon-Chips after the same manner.

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