Candied Citrus Peel Recipe | Simply Recipes http://www.simplyrecipes.com A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments. Sat, 18 May 2013 00:02:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Simply Recipes » Candied Citrus Peel Recipe | Simply Recipes http://www.simplyrecipes.com http://www.simplyrecipes.com/wp-content/themes/simply/i/logo.png?v=2 301 47 A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments. Candied Citrus Peel http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/candied_citrus_peel/ http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/candied_citrus_peel/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:58:59 +0000 Elise http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/candied_citrus_peel When it’s citrus season here in Northern California our grapefruit, lemon, and orange trees are heavy with fruit. Taking inspiration from Il Forno’s wonderful blog entry on candied orange peel I decided to try my hand with some grapefruit peel. I followed a slightly different recipe than Il Forno, having dug one up from An Olde Concord Christmas. That recipe calls for the rinds to be soaked overnight in salt water. I’m not sure the purpose of this step, nor did I want to wait, so I skipped it. If anyone has a suggestion as to why soaking the rind overnight in salt water would benefit the process, please let me know!

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]]> When it’s citrus season here in Northern California our grapefruit, lemon, and orange trees are heavy with fruit. Taking inspiration from Il Forno’s wonderful blog entry on candied orange peel I decided to try my hand with some grapefruit peel. I followed a slightly different recipe than Il Forno, having dug one up from An Olde Concord Christmas. That recipe calls for the rinds to be soaked overnight in salt water. I’m not sure the purpose of this step, nor did I want to wait, so I skipped it. If anyone has a suggestion as to why soaking the rind overnight in salt water would benefit the process, please let me know!

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