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Crystallised Orange Peel

Crystallised Orange Peel — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Ingredients

  • 3 organic or unwaxed oranges (Sevilles are good)
  • 90 g caster sugar (twice)
  • 220 ml water (twice)

Instructions

  1. 1
    Peel just the skin of the washed, dried orange with a potato peeler (include only skin, no white pith).
  2. 2
    Boil the peels in a syrup made from the sugar and water for 5 minutes. Remove peels from syrup.
  3. 3
    Dry peels on a wire rack for 4 hours.
  4. 4
    Boil peels again in a fresh syrup. Dry again on the wire rack until brittle (about 48 hours).
  5. 5
    Grind in a clean coffee grinder and store in a sealed container.
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