Our new sister site, Green Daily, has a post up today that I thought might appeal to you Slashfoodies out there in readerland. They have discovered an article on Gomestic about 10 ways to use an orange peel. Back when I was in high school, I had a friend who would carefully save the peel of her orange, and after she had finished the fruit would return to the peel and meticulously scrap out all the white pith and eat it. Someone had once told her that it had lots of Vitamin C and being the health-conscious person that she was took the advice to heart.
I'm not necessarily recommending that you consume your pith (anyone know whether my friend was correct or not?) but some of these other orange peel tips are quite helpful. My favorites are the recommendations to use peels as a safe home fragrance (boil them in little water with a cinnamon stick or two), to use a bit to keep your brown sugar soft (I always have problems with hardened sugar) and put them in with oil to create infusions.
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10-04-2007 @ 5:58PM
Cheryl said...
When I was a kid I ate the white pith 'cause it TASTED GOOD!
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10-05-2007 @ 2:21PM
Kathryn said...
I don't know if the nutritional value of the pith is true, but I do know that my grandfather used to do the same thing and told me that it was good for you, and I still eat it to this day. It never fails to get strange looks! =)
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10-05-2007 @ 10:44PM
--bdw said...
Use a zester to get the peel off of the pith. Then put the zest of two oranges in a litre of good vodka for three or four days; remove the zest and let sit for a three more days. Voila, orange scented vodka much better than anything you can buy. Also works with lime and lemon peel, and probably grapefruit, but I've never tried that. You can add sugar or not.
I think everyone will agree that this is a much better tip than all those others. If you use overproof vodka, you can even use it to start fires, and it will strip oil and gunk off of furniture and firearms, and it smells nice, too.
Also, it's pretty good with brown sugar.
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10-08-2007 @ 11:21AM
kevjohn said...
BDW, thanks for that vodka tip. I'll try that ASAP.
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10-08-2007 @ 12:33PM
Elizabeth Connors said...
My mother told me to eat the pith because it was full of fiber, not vitamins. I rarely do it, though.
My grandmother told me the same thing about rubbing your nails with it, and that does seem to work well.
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10-10-2007 @ 1:39PM
bcs3nme said...
My grandmother and mother both taught me to rub my fingernails across the pith to clean them. They somehow act like a cuticle pencil and come out whiter plus smell nice. Great vodka tip!
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