[Sca-cooks] weight of orange peel

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:17:28 +0000 Olwen the Odd <olwentheodd at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Good morning all.  Well, I got a California
> navel orange (not the kind with
> the really fat peel) and I peeled and scraped
> the skin.  It weighed just
> under an ounce.  I prepared the peel and dried
> it and rolled it in sugar
> and, surprize, it weighed the same.  So.  The
> answer to the question is,
> just shy of one ounce.

Thank you!  I'd like to say that I'll be baking up a batch tonight, but I have
5 pounds of sausage mix sitting in my fridge, waiting to be stuffed.
(Actually, it's more than 5 pounds, because I added 3/4 pound of suet.)  And I
still need to start making the peach pits I promised...

Brighid

Brighid