Bitter Orange Peel Ribbons - 1KG

Bitter Orange Peel Ribbons - 1KG

The peel of the orange fruit is highly useful across multiple applications. It’s a popular botanical ingredient for gins where it adds a zesty touch to drinks, it’s also found in jams, drinks and orange-flavoured products.

It can be used to great effect in various European beer styles, including Belgian Witbier. Bitter orange peel, also often called curaçao orange peel, is an important ingredient in the liqueur of the same name. Brewers mainly use it in Witbiers, but you might also use it in Blonds or Tripels. Also very interesting in a stout. Add at the end of the boil.
Orange peel will add a zesty citrus punch to gin and other flavoured spirits.

Description

Coarse Cut Orange Peel brings a sharp, tangy quality to food and drink recipes that call for a fruity flavour. This peel requires very little prep, is sweet with a hint of bitterness.

Other uses

• Use dried orange peel as a kindling to start BBQ. The fragrance from the fruit will lend its flavour to meat, fish, and veg.
• Mix into potpourri to bring a natural scent to your home
• Infuse in boiling water with tea for a refreshing cuppa with an orange twist!
• Add to sugar, pepper or salt grinders, and you can thank us later
• Mix into mulled wine with cinnamon and nutmeg while heating up.
  
  

More about orange peels

Dried orange peel comes almost exclusively from southern Spain. Sourcing of both the sweet and bitter orange has seen an increase in demand in recent years, of which the majority can be put down to the success of the Gin trade. The harvest of bitter oranges is on a much smaller scale, mainly due to the smaller demand levels and the significant difference in flavour profile between the two. Following the fruit harvest (for fresh fruit and juice), collectors can hand-select any fruit that remains on the trees. These fruits are then hand-peeled, with the ribbons left to dry naturally in the Mediterranean sun. Harvest usually occurs once a year between January and April, before the lemon peels.