Yellow Melon Muscadel (Melon Salad)

From: realbirdlady

On Jun 27, 2008

For a ZWT challenge, I did this without the sugar, substituting 1/4 cup chopped raisins. (In sugar equivalency, this is a less than the recipe amount.) I also used 4 tbl of lemon juice, with no vinegar. Instead of balls, I cut thin slices of melon. I didn't strain the syrup, so used the raisin bits as garnish. It came out fine, but the melon by itself would have been fine, too, or just sprinkled with the wine.

From: evelyn/athens

On Jun 23, 2008

I scaled this recipe to half and used Greek Mavrodaphne wine in place of the muscatel. This had really nice flavour - with a great sweet/tart thing going on. The Mavrodaphne gave a nice muskiness to it.

From: Sharon123

On Jun 28, 2006

I loved the flavor! I reduced the recipe for one, using honey dew and cantalope. I left out the wine. The salt and pepper, vinegar and sugar, what a lovely mix of tastes!

From: Susie D

On Jun 20, 2006

I greatly reduced the amount of ingredients here to make a smaller salad and used splenda in place of the sugar. I wasn't crazy about the wine, but I thought everything else was very nice. On the other hand DH loved it and rated it 5 stars. Thank you for sharing your recipe! —