| Barry |
| | 04/24/09 at 10:06 PM | | #1 |
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I've been squeezing a lot lemons recently as a drink with honey (British honey - the best )and end up throwing away the lemon after extracting the juice. Should I remove the zest before squeezing ? If so , how can this be stord for use and what would the uses be apart from for cakes / lemonade ?
Another matter - what is the point of an electric fruit squeezer when my mechanical glass one does the job - it cost gbp 1.90 and requires almost no awkward cleaning. Do the electric ones really get that much more juice out...........
Barry
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| Kate Colquhoun |
| | 04/25/09 at 12:04 PM | | #2 |
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What to do with lemon zest? Good question! Pared zest (using a potato peeler to get as little as possible of the bitter white stuff underneath) will freeze fine in a small plastic container and you can then shred it to use to flavour custards, zabaglione, bread and butter pudding, sponges - well, all sorts, really. Problem is, once you've pared the fruit you'll really have to use the electric juicer as it wont work so well with your glass one. Electric juicers really come into their own for using up almost anything but spherical citrus fruits - apples, pears, carrots, pineapple, beetroot etc etc - for which you couldnt possibly use your glass one. But there's no way round having to clean the thing afterwards.
If you felt very finickity and you like gin, Pimms or vodka of a summer's evening, I guess you could also freeze a bit in each ice cube....
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all have our "defaults - the chicken pie, risotto or soup that we can do
without really thinking. And while WE might be bored of our old
favourites, they'd taste fantastic to someone else. So do please share
your ideas for using up the last carrot in the fridge, those last two blackening
bananas or the single lingering single egg white".