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Gorp with PEEL Appeal
You’re going green, so you buy fresh fruits and vegetables, right? Don’t throw anything away, not even citrus peels. Instead, use great-grandmother’s recipe to “candy” them. Then use bits in your next gorp for tiny bursts of citrus flavor.
Candied Citrus Peel
This keeps best in a cool, dry place.
1. Pare oranges, grapefruit, lemons or limes, or a mixture of citrus fruits, leaving only the fruit. Use the fruit for another purpose.
2. Cut skin in strips about 1/4 inch wide. Cut strips in bits.
3. Measure 1 ½ cups of these bits.
1 ½ cups citrus peelings, cut in bits
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup sugar
½ cup water
Additional sugar
Put citrus bits in a bag with the 1/4 cup sugar and shake to coat well. Set aside. Bring 1 cup sugar to a boil in ½ cup water, stirring to dissolve sugar. Turn off heat and add peel, stirring to coat.
Let peel stand in sugar syrup until it begins to cool, about 20-30 minutes, then empty into a strainer. Save the syrup to serve over ice cream or use it to flavor a smoothie.
Arrange drained citrus bits on waxed paper to dry thoroughly. When bits are dry and crusty, toss with additional sugar and keep in a tightly closed jar to use in gorp.
Citrus Bits Corp
1 package orange, lemon or lime gelatin dessert mix
About 1 cup homemade candied citrus peel bits
8 cups different square cereals
4 cups round oat cereal
2 to 3 cups roasted soy nuts or nuts of your choice
1 cup natural cashews
In a large plastic bag, toss cereals, citrus bits and dry gelatin mix. Add nuts. Toss to mix and package in snack bags by the cupful. Makes about 16 one-cup portions.
Idea: Almost any leftover gorp makes a delicious salad sprinkle.
See Janet Groene’s shortcut recipes and tips for camping at https://campandrvcook.blogspot.com
Tip: When you measure gorp portions into snack bags, slip in an individually packaged wet wipe.
Be prepared for food emergencies at home or in your boat, camper or cabin. Survival Food Handbook is a guide to provisioning your pantry with affordable, familiar supermarket staples. Save those high-priced survival rations for long-term emergencies.
Canned and packaged foods are good travel insurance.
Even a day trip can turn into a longer-than-planned, hungry and even
life-threatening adventure. For a book on provisioning your camper, boat , cabin or fish camp with
familiar, affordable pantry foods from the supermarket see Survival Food Handbook, published by International Marine division of McGraw-Hill. http://amzn.to/1WdYqbe
