Bottling Clementines/Mandarins
I have been playing again - its becoming an addictive habit, but so far I am well pleased with this experiment so far, all that needs to be done is for me to report back on the taste. I have had three baskets worth of Clementines for £3 from the Veg shop and peaches and oranges have always been a bit of a grey area for me as there is a lot of fiddling to do to get them processed. With peaches it is getting them skinned with the oranges it is getting rid of all the pith and making the oranges look really edible. This time round I am playing with Clementines. I decided to process the sugar syrup first - I did this at 8 oz for 2 pints of water - not a heavy syrup but a light one and made up 8 pints worth and left it to cool. This will be boiled up again before use. I have done things this way as I have a lot of fruit to process and wanted to make sure that I had enough syrup for the bulk bottling session. Anyway here it goes: I peeled each clementine indiv...