Sugar and Fat Preservation Techniques

Gathers the preservation techniques that keep food by replacing its water with sugar or by sealing out the air with fat. Candying steeps fruit or peel in progressively more concentrated hot sugar syrup until the sugar gradually replaces the water, and potting packs hot cooked meat tightly into a pot and covers it with hot fat so that air cannot reach it. A technique belongs here when its own cited article describes preserving food in sugar or in fat. It excludes salt curing, smoking and drying, which have their own groups under food preservation.