Watermelon peel marmalade

1. Peel the watermelon crusts from the green skin, cut into small cubes, put them in a saucepan.

2. Fill the prepared crusts with water, add soda, mix, leave for 6 hours.

3. After the specified time, drain the water, wash the watermelon rinds thoroughly under running water.

4. Re-fill the crusts with water so that it almost covers them, pour some sugar (500 grams).

5. We send the pan to the fire, cook the crusts on low heat for 20 minutes from the moment of boiling, then cool, leaving for 6 hours at room temperature.

6. Then repeat the cooking procedure for the second time and also cool for 6 hours.

7. For the third time, pour the same amount of sugar to the crusts, add vanilla sugar and cardamom, squeeze the juice from the lemon, cook until transparent.

8. We throw the watermelon crusts on a sieve, let the liquid drain, then roll in the remaining sugar and let it dry on a baking sheet. 

It turned out to be an excellent treat!

Help yourself!