Peel away, boys...
Mar. 24th, 2012 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSome bright spark suggested that as well as/instead of developing a sweet marmalade from the oranges on our tree, I should think about candied or glacéd peel. So, y'know. I looked on the internet. And found a nice simple recipe that basically said "make a sugar syrup, add peel, boil till tender," and that was it. Well, I thought, I could do that.
Alas. I read on, other recipes, progressively more complex. When I reached the one that has the peel a full week in brine and then another week in successively sweeter syrups, before finally being dried off and rubbed with olive oil - well, yes. That was when I thought "I want to do this!"
The fascination of what's difficult, or at least complicated and time-consuming. I dunno. But if it makes a better product, and I'm betting that it does, then I'm so there.
Also, that was the recipe that started off by insisting one's oranges should be organic. It ... would be hard to be more organic than our oranges. They grow on a tree, and nobody sprays 'em with nothing.
In other news, apparently I moved to California because I missed the rain. Sigh.
Alas. I read on, other recipes, progressively more complex. When I reached the one that has the peel a full week in brine and then another week in successively sweeter syrups, before finally being dried off and rubbed with olive oil - well, yes. That was when I thought "I want to do this!"
The fascination of what's difficult, or at least complicated and time-consuming. I dunno. But if it makes a better product, and I'm betting that it does, then I'm so there.
Also, that was the recipe that started off by insisting one's oranges should be organic. It ... would be hard to be more organic than our oranges. They grow on a tree, and nobody sprays 'em with nothing.
In other news, apparently I moved to California because I missed the rain. Sigh.