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il 23 Jan 2005 09:39:31 -0800, (Peter B North) ha
scritto:
> Hi
> I wonder if you can help. I know an old lady who makes marmalade but
> finds the cutting of the rind hard and tedious work. Can anyone
> suggest a gadget, machine, whatever, that might help her out?
> She makes about 50 jars a year I think, so it would be useful to her!
> Thanks very much.
> Peter
I'm just reading about electric knives in the bread newsgroup. Would
they help? I would think a peeler is just as hard to use as a knife.
My recipes just talk about slicing the oranges thinly. One doesn't
peel them or remove the pith. But these are old fashioned recipes
before the "sweet tooth" took over the world's taste buds and
everything seems to be made to taste sweeter, even cheese. <sigh>
I notice in the manufactured jams that they are more like a jelly
than a jam and have just a skerrick of peel to let you know that
'hey, I'm a jam, not a gelatinous load of sugar, really" They are
certainly nothing like the robust chunky marmalade my father loved.
Oh and that bitter pith? It just may be healthy for you. In the same
way that the bitterness that was so carefully being bred out of
broccoli happened to be a cancer preventative.
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Cheers,
Loki [ Brevity is the soul of wit. W.Shakespeare ]
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