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Thu, Mar 22, 2007

Darling Clementines

Posted at 8:53 pm MDT to Technology

We have arrived at a sad time of year. The winter clementine season is coming to an end. The last box I bought mostly taste all right (many of them are wonderful) but about half of them are strangely shriveled and dried out inside.

The nice thing about modern logistics is that I don't need to wait until November to have good clementines again. The southern hemisphere crop should be showing up in the stores in another month or two.

This is a marvel of the modern world. Even a century ago, my relatives were eating dandelions in early spring to avoid scurvy. Yuck. (I am probably a hypertaster: genetically more sensitive to bitter flavors than most Caucasians. Dandelions are way outside my comfort range.)

This would have been a problem for me: I seem to always crave enormous quantities of citrus and vitamin C. I always buy lots of fruitcake fruit in the fall when it is in the stores. Much more than I need for holiday baking. I snack on small amounts of straight candied orange peel and candied lemon peel and candied citron and fruitcake mix.

I should probably learn to candy the peels from organic citrus, just for completeness. Or how to make marmalade, which I prefer to most kinds of jam. I wonder where one gets citrons... somewhere on the web no doubt.

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