"Farm1" wrote after "Bob Hobden" wittered on and "Sacha" wrote ((snip))
Now, Bob, here's a challenge - what will you make from the
fruit of our Citrus medica - they are *enormous*!

Has the rind got a nice strong pleasant citrus scent?
If so the same recipe would work.
Or you can candy it.

Someone on uk.food+drink.misc has told me about candying it
(sigh..)
I'll
go and sniff it tomorrow for the Limoncello idea which sounds
*much* more
attractive!


Stick your nail into the rind and see what it smells like.
You do have to guard against getting the white pith (bitter) in the
bottle
so need to pare off the yellow rind carefully, thinly.
Candying it would work fine but how much does one want, even with a
Tea Shop
there are only so many cakes it can be used in/on. Hot Cross Buns
spring to
mind. :-)

I'm green with envy. My husband always likes to have a Boiled Fruit
Cake sitting on the cake stand ready for his numerous snacks during
the day and candied peel is one of the important ingredients for it.
And the blasted local shop seems to think that country cooks only want
candied peel at Christmas time for some strange reason known only to
themselves!

I think we can get mixed chopped candied fruit all year here in the UK and
there must be somewhere near you that stocks it all year. Even if it's in a
major city some distance away they may post it to you.

Anyway, couldn't you grow such a citrus plant outside where you are in Oz?
The fruit truly are huge and it would make a good talking point, Lemons the
size of Ozzy Rules footballs, imagine it. :-)

--
Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK