I’ve just received a couple cases of clementines which are approaching the end of their life.

I’ve never cooked with them, normally I just peel and eat them. I’m not sure if I’m up to the task of eating all these in the next few days. So if you’ve got some tips on something I could do to make them last longer I’m all ears

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
    13·
    10 小时前

    When life gives you oranges, don’t make orange juice. Make life take the oranges back! Get mad! You don’t want those damn oranges, what the hell are you supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Bougie_Birdie oranges! Do you know who you are? You’re the man who’s gonna burn a house down! With the oranges! You’re gonna get your engineers to invent a combustible orange that burns a house down!

  • teft@lemmy.world
    15·
    19 小时前

    Make marmalade. You can jar it to store for later or give it away for christmas presents.

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      10 小时前

      Honestly, somehow I’ve gone my whole life without ever having marmalade. That sounds like a fun new recipe for me

      I bet if I start with the homemade stuff I’m never going back to store-bought. Although, I guess I haven’t gone to store-bought yet anyway

  • ownsauce@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 小时前

    Make a giant screwdriver with the pulp and some juice. Invite the neighborhood to get drunk.

    Juice and freeze, like a better frozen minute maid.

    Use the hollowed remains and some juice for orange slice jello shots.

    Make your own orange Julius / orange dream from Jamba.

    Orange sorbet/sherbert

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    6·
    19 小时前

    I’d probably candy the peels and squeeze+freeze the juices.

    EDIT: jordanlund recommended candying the slices instead. That would also work well. They’re specially great on coca de Sant Joan.

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      10 小时前

      Huh, I had no idea you could candy just the peel. Do you think that would work okay with a clementine? They are quite thin skinned

      Coca de sant Joan looks like a really interesting dish, rather exotic

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        2·
        7 小时前

        It works well, specially with thinner peels - the syrup penetrates faster, and the peel gets a bit thicker after candied.

        Coca is delicious, and I heavily recommend. I typically prepare it with candied fruits and an egg-based cream, but if you want you could do it with the candied clementine slices alone.

        • Syd@lemm.ee
          3·
          2 小时前

          I absolutely love coca but I’m confused about the taste, it always makes my mouth numb.

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      10 小时前

      Homebrewing is one of those things that I’m equal parts interested and intimidated.

      It definitely has some appeal, I’m just worried about creating a hazard. Every know and then you hear about a moonshine still around here exploding - and while I’m sure that’s not the risk with all liquors I do worry about fermenting “wrong” somehow and making poison

      But hell, I do want to try it sometime. I’m just also worried about investing in some equipment and then never using it twice. My kitchen used to be something of a gadget graveyard 😅

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        8 小时前

        To be fair I suggested it as a joke.

        As for creating poison, it is hard to make something poisonous and at the same time good tasting. Stilling moonshine is on another level (and you have to be pretty reckless to poison yourself with methanol).

        Loads of equipment is only “quality of life” improvement. So if you don’t mind to repurpose something you already have, spending more time on it and it may be little harder, you can do it without selling your kidney.

        You can look at the sidebar of our community, there are starter guides to give you some ideas. I think that least gear intensive is mead or cider/wine from store bought juice.

          • poleslav@lemmy.world
            4·
            9 小时前

            It’s always worth a shot. Every piece of research I did on watermelon wine said it’ll taste like cucumber at best and rotten carrot at worst. I can happily confirm that it didn’t deter me and I gave it a shot, it ended up being one of my favorite things I fermented and tasted like candied watermelon that wasn’t artificial

            • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
              4·
              9 小时前

              Love your posts, and I have taken the shot with fermenting OJ, myself! It was fun, but turned out horrid. I kinda doubt OP shares this interest and is probably looking for more practical suggestions

              • poleslav@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 小时前

                Only motivates me more to try it out! Worst case scenario it can always be distilled to pure ethanol lol. And yeah, probably not but hey you never know

            • poleslav@lemmy.world
              5·
              9 小时前

              I was going to do a lemon wine and now I might do orange brandy as well just to give it a shot lol