Recipe Please

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 27

Recipe Please

Dear Aunt Daisy, I should be so glad to get the recipe for candied orange or lemon peel, since we grow the latter. When in Dunedin I seem to remember the Home Service folk saying something about it, but can’t recall the recipe. Mrs. E.P, (Nelson). Here are two recipes; the second being a quicker method; but the first one has the big quarters, of which the hollows are filled with syrup, and afterwards dried-like the bought peel. Candied Peel: — Cut the skin into querters, and soak in salt and water for four days. Drain and boil in fresh water till tender. Make syrup with 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water. Put peel into this and boil till soft, Leave until next day. Then remove peel, and add to the syrup the juice of 1 lemon and I cup of sugar. Boil till thick. Pour this over the peel, and gradually dry off in the oven. Orange peel is very nice done this way. Quick Method: -- Cut the peel of bright yellow oranges into long strips, about '%4 inch wide. Cover them with cold water, and bring slowly to the boiling point. Drain off the water, add fresh water, and repeat the process three times, Measure the orange peel, add an equal amount of sugar, and just enough boiling water to cover, Simmer until the rind is tender and clear. Cool, drain from the syrup, and roll the strips in Sranulated sugar. Spread them out to dry for several hours, and roll again in granulated sugar if at all sticky, Lemon peel is done the same way, but allow it to stand overnight in cold water before cooking.