The Art of French Pastry

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YIELD | 80 PEELS (FROM 20 PIECES OF FRUIT) 10-DAY RECIPE Candying citrus peel is a great way to use peels ...

your refrigerator, as bacteria cannot grow in a product saturated with sugar. It’s best to use organic an ...

in the fruit with sugar syrup. Every day the sugar concentration is increased until all the water has been repla ...

mandarins, lemons, limes, cherries, pears, melons, and figs. Candied fruit has many uses. It makes a beautiful garn ...

brings great flavor to cakes and breads, such as Brioche or Stollen and Pain d’Épices, which absorb its wonderful ...

stabilize fruit with this easy technique. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Get out the following equipment and allow all of th ...

Digital scale, set to metric weights 1 vegetable brush 1 paring knife 1 soup spoon 1 tall stainless steel p ...

1 medium stainless steel pot 1 plate that fits snugly in the tall pot Plastic wrap Read this recipe through ...

INGREDIENTS There are many ways to preserve fruit, and candying is one of them. Fruit consists mainly of ...

bacteria cannot grow. If it is done properly the water in the cells will gradually be extracted and repla ...

the peels in hot water, a process called blanching —is crucial. You blanch the peels to remove all of the waxes on ...

briefly once a day for 10 days in sugar syrup that is low in sugar at first and that becomes sweeter ea ...

corn syrup prevents the sugar mixture from crystallizing. INGREDIENTS | WEIGHT | MEASURE (APPROXIMATE) OR OUNCE WEIG ...

pieces Sea salt | 10 grams | 1½ teaspoons Water | 1000 grams | 1 quart plus 3 tablespoons Granulated suga ...

tablespoons METHOD 1 Let’s take the example of candying orange peels. Scrub the oranges under water with ...

horizontally so that you obtain nice quarters. Slide a soup spoon between the skin and the flesh and ca ...

(large enough to hold all of the peels but not too wide or large) with water and bring it to a boil. Plun ...

them to a strainer or colander; rinse them thoroughly with cold water. Drain the hot water and scrub the p ...

if you are making a larger batch), and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and add the orange peels. ...