Mom’s Cooking #1: Candied orange peel with pulp
*Guest post in Vietnamese by my Mom, translated by me*
My daughter and her friends always like my fresh squeezed orange juice, so every time she visits home in the summer and winter break, we drive up to the Farm Patch Produce Market in College Station to buy navel oranges. The grocery stores have navel oranges too, of course, but for some reason Farm Patch always have the best. Their rotund shape, their bright color, their rugged skin similar to that of the Vietnamese cam sành, all promise a slender sweetness contained, not to mention the little twin at the apex, darling like a hidden Christmas gift. These oranges are so well worth the two hour drive that I regret throwing them away after juicing, so I thought, why not make “mứt cam“, candied orange peel?
The simple ingredients:
– 2 oranges
– 10 tbs sugar or to taste
– 1 cup water
The simple method:
– Wash and squeeze out juice from the oranges, then slice the peel (with pulp attached) into strips.
– Mix 10 tbs sugar with water and simmer on low heat for roughly 15 minutes. Use a pair of chopstick to test: dip the chopsticks into the boiling sugar liquid, lift up and separate the chopsticks, if a sugar silk strand forms in between then the mixture is ready for the next step.
– Add orange peel strips, continue simmering on low heat for about 30 minutes, stir occasionally to make sure the sugar coat and soak the peel evenly.
– When all liquid evaporates and the peels feel jammy, turn off heat.
– Put candied peel in glass jar, wait until it’s cool to seal and store in refrigerator.
This candied orange can also be eaten with toast like marmalade, its sweetness stark, its texture crunchy, a natural minty sweep from the peel even gives it a healthy sense. They say eating it helps improving sore throats. I think making it helps improving patience. 🙂
This post is submitted to Delicious Vietnam #11, March edition, hosted by The Culinary Chronicles. I’ll head to her blog for more yummy posts on Vietnamese food this month, and many thanks to theRavenous Couple and Anh for creating this event!
I’m extremely inspired along with your writing talents as smartly as with the format for your weblog. Is that this a paid theme or did you customize it your self? Either way stay up the excellent quality writing, it’s rare to look a nice weblog like this one today..
1Great beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your site, how could i subscribe for a blog website? The account helped me a acceptable deal. I had been a little bit acquainted of this your broadcast offered bright clear idea
2Everyone loves what you guys are usually up too. Such clever work and coverage! Keep up the terrific works guys I’ve added you guys to blogroll.
3Would you be taken with exchanging links?
4Yay google is my world beater aided me to find this great internet site! .
5I like this internet site because so much useful material on here :D.
6Just a smiling visitor here to share the love (:, btw great style.
7Thank you, I have recently been looking for information about this subject for a long time and yours is the greatest I’ve discovered till now. But, what concerning the bottom line? Are you certain concerning the source?
8Unquestionably believe that that you stated. Your favorite justification seemed to be at the net the simplest thing to take note of. I say to you, I definitely get irked even as people think about concerns that they just don’t know about. You controlled to hit the nail upon the highest and defined out the whole thing without having side effect , other folks can take a signal. Will likely be again to get more. Thank you
9fantastic points altogether, you just gained a new reader. What would you suggest about your post that you made some days ago? Any positive?
10Only wanna input on few general things, The website design is perfect, the subject material is very wonderful. “The sun sets without thy assistance.” by The Talmud.
11I’ll immediately grab your rss feed as I can’t find your email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you’ve any? Please let me know so that I could subscribe. Thanks.
12As I web site possessor I believe the content matter here is rattling great , appreciate it for your efforts. You should keep it up forever! Best of luck.
13Its excellent as your other posts : D, thanks for posting.
14