[Sca-cooks] Candied Orange Peel

[Stefan li Rous]

  Kateryn de Develyn mentioned:
> Mistress Diana McLean and I tried making the sugared orange peel with
> ginger. We added freshly peeled and sliced ginger to the sugar syrup
> we were making to put the orange peel in.
>
> I have to tell you, the result was absolutely fantastic! You
> couldn't taste the ginger at all, but the orange flavor of the peels
> just popped! I have never tasted such orangey sugared peels before.
Thank you. This sounds interesting and I'll have to try this sometime. 
I may have missed earlier comments, but do we have any evidence of 
ginger, or other items, being added to the sugar syrup for flavoring 
and not for sugaring that item itself?

Stefan
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