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Kumquats are the size of large olives. Photo courtesy White Flower Farm. How can it be that we’ve never published a piece about the kumquat? Today’s tip remedies that oversight. Native to China and now grown throughout Southeast Asia (plus the U.S. and elsewhere), the kumquat is a tiny citrus fruit that is entirely…
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The Ugli fruit has inner beauty, and snappy citrus flavor. Photo courtesy Uglifruit.org. Our recent daily tips have included vegetables to cure the winter doldrums. That goes for fruits, too. Take the Uniq fruit, wrinkled and rough with splotchy coloring and surface scarring. Its skin is wrapped very loosely over the pulp. It’s the…
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Set up an “applesauce bar” for breakfast, dessert or snacking. Photo courtesy U.S. Apple. Mom always made applesauce from scratch. Her apple of choice was the McIntosh, and she cooked them with the peel. It generated a pretty pink color when strained through a food mill. When we first had commercial applesauce from a…
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With a limited offering of sweet fresh fruit during the winter, turn to seasonal citrus to dress your desserts. Angel cake, cheesecake, olive oil cake, pound cake, sponge cake: all are highly receptive to a garnish of citrus segments (or, depending on how you look at it, a citrus fruit salad). In addition to cheery…
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During the cold winter months with most fruits out of season, citrus become a go-to fruit. Calamondins, clementines, grapefruits, kumquats, lemons, limes, mandarins, oranges, pomelos, satsumas, sweet limettas, tangelo, tangerine, ugli fruit and even more exotic varieties: All are waiting for you to enjoy. Cut them into salads, mix them into sauces, turn them into…
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