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    Watermelon Boat


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    List of Ingredients




    1 cup lemon juice
    1 cup sugar
    2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
    2 eggs, beaten
    1 cup whipping cream
    1 large Watermelon
    1 large honeydew, cut into cubes or balls
    1 large cantaloupe, cut into cubes or balls
    2 pints fresh strawberries, sliced
    1/2 pound green grapes

    Recipe



    Combine the lemon juice, sugar and flour in a saucepan; bring to boil. Reduce the heat to low. Stir 1/4 cup into eggs; return to pan. Cook and stir for 15 minutes or until mixture coats a spoon (do not boil). Cool. Fold in whipping cream that has been whipped. Cover and chill until ready to serving. NOW to prepare the watermelon boat: Cut a thin slice from bottom of the melon with a sharp knife to allow the melon boat to set flat. Mark a horizontal cutting line 2 inches above the center of melon. With a long sharp knife, cut into the melon along the line, making sure to cut all the way through. Gently pull off top section of rind. Remove fruit from both sections and cut into cubes or balls; set aside. NOW to cut decorative edge: Place melon on its side. Position a 2-1/2-inch 8-point star cookie cutter against inside edge of melon, allowing only half of the star to cut through rind (use a mallet if necessary to help push cookie cutter through melon. Insert a toothpick into flat edge of removed piece. Attach piece onto melon edge where last cut ends. Repeat cutting and attaching pieces until the entire melon edge is completed.Combine honeydew, cantaloupe, strawberries, grapes and melon; spoon into the boat. Serve with the prepared topping on the side.

 

 

 


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