Juicy, fragrant bright oranges are valuable not only as tasty and healthy fruits, but also as a source of zest, which has found wide application in the industrial production of exquisite liqueurs and confectionery. At home, you can make a very delicate, incredibly tasty and original jam from orange peels in the form of curls.
Having eaten an orange, do not rush to throw the remaining peels into the trash bin: dried and crushed into powder with a coffee grinder, they can be successfully used as a natural flavoring agent when baking cookies or muffins; small dry slices of zest are added to the tea leaves to flavor the tea; the infusion of the peel helps to scare off ants, but fresh raw materials are used to prepare an unusually beautiful jam from orange peels.
For the jam, you need three large oranges, thoroughly washed with hot water and scalded with boiling water. The fruit is cut in half, after which each half is cut into separate slices and peeled. Classic recipes involve an additional 3-day soaking of the crusts with regular water changes - this will eliminate excessive bitterness and give additional softness to the workpieces.
After soaking, the loose white layer is removed from the inside of the orange peel and each strip is gently rolled into a tight spiral. The finished spirals are tightly strung on a strong thread, like beads, poured with cold water and boiled for 15-20 minutes, after which the water is drained and the cooking process is repeated 3 more times. It is recommended to rinse the orange peel in cold water after each plum.
Then the syrup is prepared in a wide saucepan: about 750 g of sugar and 250 ml of water are used for a pound of boiled orange peels. "Beads" from the peel are dipped in sugar syrup and brought to a boil over low heat and boiled for about 20-30 minutes. After that, the jam is removed from the heat, allowed to cool and the cooking process is repeated again, after boiling, adding the juice of half a lemon.
After the orange peel jam has completely cooled, the threads are removed from the curls and transferred to a dry, clean jar.
