OT: Citron For 2009

El Toro · Sep 17, 2009

Here's the Citron I raised for my nephew. He's going to make preserves out of it next month. Its good on hot bicuits. I had lots of vines and blossoms, but only one fruit was produced.
Hal

krm · Sep 17, 2009

We call them water melons here in Sou.In.

jbp · Sep 17, 2009

There is a heap of difference between a citron and a watermellon. They only look much alike on the outside. A citron does not get ripe like a watermellon, and is not good to eat raw, but does make good preserves, as I remember from about 60 years ago. Of course a hungry boy would eat most anything sweet after walking home after a day at a one room school. Wasn't any lunch rooms in those days, instead you took a dinner bucket.
Joe

bill mart · Sep 17, 2009

Citron must be a local name for them,I googled Citron and came up with a lemon like fruit (citronella maybe?) from asia.Bill M.

jbp · Sep 18, 2009

Google , citron melon.
Joe

El Toro · Sep 18, 2009

There's a lot of people that never heard of Citrons. My late mom would pickle the watermelon rinds. One big citron will make a lot of preserves. Hal

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