[Magdalen] Another "worthless" food.

[Marion Thompson]

I would love either, especially the lemon!

My long-gone aunt used to make candied grapefruit peel.  It was the 
biggest treat ever when a  box would arrive for my birthday or 
Christmas..  My Grandma Marion, back in the Fifties, used to make 
peppermint patties, somehow fashioned from mashed potatoes, icing sugar, 
and flavouring, finished with a  criss-cross patterned top.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/2/2016 2:51 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 9/30/16 11:17 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>> EAT your orange at breakfast, don't drink orange juice! Or put it in a
>> smoothie where you get the benefit of the whole thing (except the 
>> seeds and
>> peel, of course). Fresh fruits are the BEST!
>
> Orange peel is great for you, except from distributors who like to 
> make the peel "oranger" with "food coloring" to increase sales, to 
> which a lot of people are allergic.  I don't appear to be allergic, 
> but I also worry some about residues from insecticide and fungicide 
> sprays.  That isn't enough to keep me from candying it frequently, and 
> then eating it like candy, or dipped in chocolate, which is even nicer 
> (for me) as well as using the chopped candied peel in baking recipes.  
> I have one Extreme Health Food recipe which is delicious, for bran 
> muffins, which includes directions to run a sliced orange, complete 
> with peel, but seeded (I use navel oranges, lazy about the slicing and 
> seeding) through your blender or food processor, peel and all, then 
> using the result as an ingredient.  I do it with lemons, too, also 
> delicious (to me: tastes vary).
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