Cooking & Baking Essentials
The Technique
Fresh Oranges
Fresh oranges make recipes glow. The juice can be used to lightly scent cake & muffin batters as featured in Fresh Orange-Pecan Banana Muffins, stirred into icings such as Fresh Orange Glaze or serve as the foundation to savory basting sauces or marinades. Zest the outer surface, only the bright color, to infuse the oils in fillings for high impact flavors when large amounts of liquid are not an option. When it comes to the rind, generous strips of the peel can open up an array of recipe options & applications that can be useful in the kitchen. Learn how to capture this outer portion quickly.
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How To Prepare Orange Rind For Cooking Applications
Fresh orange rind offers exceptional flavor to recipes especially when jams, preserves & marmalades are in order. Several pointers will have the rind ready for cooking & baking a variety of your favorite recipes.
The Technique
A few pieces of equipment will be needed in order to complete the task. Gather a good, sharp vegetable peeler, a cutting board & a paring knife. Here’s what you should know.
No. 1
Rinse the orange under cool water. Cut a small piece of the end away from one side of the fruit & place the flat portion onto the cutting board. Remove the outer peel of the orange using a sharp vegetable peeler by moving from the top to the bottom of the fruit. Pick the orange up, if necessary, to complete the task. Try to remove as long of a piece of the peel as you can with each swipe.
No. 2
Generally, orange peel is used in preserves & marmalades therefore a cooking process will be needed in order to soften the fruit. Slice away some of the white pith if it seems to be excessive as it can have a bitter taste, however cooking the rind will remove some of it. Place the strips of the rind on the cutting board. Thinly slice them & cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces. Use as directed in recipe applications.
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