Citron spoon sweet
Citron spoon sweet

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, citron spoon sweet. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Citron spoon sweet Recipe by elenikolas. In the Peloponnese, whole small green bitter oranges and the rind of ripe Seville oranges (bitter also) are made into spoon sweets using citrus peel and citron. On Naxos, quince spoon sweet is flavored with basil.

Citron spoon sweet is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Citron spoon sweet is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook citron spoon sweet using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Citron spoon sweet:
  1. Take 2 large citrons
  2. Prepare 1 kg sugar
  3. Get 3 cups water
  4. Get 1/2 cup glucose syrup
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp lemon juice

In Italy, a soft drink called "Cedrata" is made from the fruit. It turns out this is citron, a fruit that has a wonderful aroma but bitter. The first thought was to make a spoon sweet which is what usually is made. The reason for this was, that often there were just too many fruit around and not enough time to eat them.

Steps to make Citron spoon sweet:
  1. Grate the peel of the citrons with a fine grater.
  2. Cut them in half horizontally and score their peel vertically in 4-6 places.
  3. Remove the pieces of peel carefully and cut each one into thin strips of about the thickness of a finger.
  4. Boil them in plenty of water for 10 minutes and discard the first water.
  5. Place them in tepid water and boil once more for an additional 10 minutes.
  6. Strain the peels and place them in a large bowl with plenty of cold water for 24 hours changing the water often until the are no longer bitter.
  7. Strain them and let set them aside to drain.
  8. Place the water and sugar in a pot to boil for about 15 minutes.
  9. Add the peels and boil over strong heat for 5 minutes, allow it to let out its liquids and boil again on the next day until the syrup thickens, skimming off the foam.
  10. Just a little while before you remove it from heat, add the glucose syrup and the lemon juice, shaking the pot (not stirring with a spoon because that will squash the sweet).
  11. Your spoon sweet is done and has thickened when if you take a little of the syrup with a spoon and you allow it to run, the drops on a small plate stay tight and round and not expand.

The sweet treats are made from whole fruit, fruit pieces, purees and even tree resin. Some favorite fruity spoon sweets are made from citron, figs, oranges, and other fruits. But now there has been a renaissance not only in the grove but in the products made with this unusual citrus fruit. Naxos is not only famous for its citron spoon sweet but for its distinct liqueur, called Kitro (Greek for citron). Niki Agathocleous Ltd has been creating diet-diabetic marmalades and spoon sweets in order to give diabetics and those who may be on a diet the opport view.

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