I have my favorite fruits in each season. I prefer cherries and apricots in summer, oranges and bananas in winter. This also applies to vegetables. I believe in seasonality. In summer and autumn, when I have a time, or if I get a larger amount of fruits or vegetables, I am busy with preserving, jam making, cabbage souring. I make dried tomatoes and plums.
We always make “Bishop’s Bread” and fruitcake for Christmas, and for these it is necessary to make or buy candied fruits. But the home-made ones, which my grandmother used to prepare, were significantly better.
This year I began to accomplish my “orangeproject”. I have made candied orange and lemon peels for fruitcakes, dried orange peels for orange salt and orange sugar. Orange salt is excellent for salads and sauces, while I recommend orange sugar for cakes and pies.
