I noticed recently a bartender having cocktails that include
blood orange on his drinks menu recently, even though they
are out of season. I asked, and he says they use a commercially-
available puree.

Doing some googling, I see there are such products; the ones
I found were frozen.

Has anybody used this product? Is there a particularly good
brand? Do physical stores ever carry it, or must it be
mail ordered?

Thanks,

Steve

"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> I noticed recently a bartender having cocktails that include
> blood orange on his drinks menu recently, even though they
> are out of season. I asked, and he says they use a commercially-
> available puree.
>
> Doing some googling, I see there are such products; the ones
> I found were frozen.
>
> Has anybody used this product? Is there a particularly good
> brand? Do physical stores ever carry it, or must it be
> mail ordered?

Never seen it. What was the drink like? What was mixed in it? Sounds
tasty.

On 2010-06-28, Cheryl > wrote:

> Never seen it. What was the drink like? What was mixed in it? Sounds
> tasty.

What's the price!?

Okay, what are we talking, here? A puree includes everything. Pulp,
membranes, internal core, etc, all of which are tasteless crap. So,
we include everything that a juicer extracts and call it puree? Is
that it? Sounds like a scam to me, blood orange or any other orange.

nb

Steve Pope > wrote:

>I noticed recently a bartender having cocktails that include
>blood orange on his drinks menu recently, even though they
>are out of season. I asked, and he says they use a commercially-
>available puree.

>Doing some googling, I see there are such products; the ones
>I found were frozen.

An update: I found "Napa Valley" (yeahright) frozen blood orange
puree at United Grocers in San Rafael. I will keep it in
my freezer until I run out of blood oranges (a few more weeks)
then try making rooibos tea with it.

In the meantime, I tried substituting Valencia orange for
blood orange and it truly sucked. However, pixie tangerines
made an interesting credible-tasting tea. So I may do that a couple
more times before they too go out of season.

The problem with the frozen puree, I expect, is it has no
zest, only juice, so it will only partially do the job.
I will find out soon enough.

Steve