Glace Cumquats
I have made these before and they are fruity and delicious. The whole process takes about 7 days but it is worth the effort as to buy crystallised, or glace fruit costs an arm and a leg whereas you can produce quite a quantity for a reasonable amount of money, but there is quite a bit of time and effort invovled, which are small steps carried out on a daily basis. My fascination with having a go at preparing my own crystallised and glace fruits started with a heavy old glass tray which I obtained from a charity shop quite a few years ago. My initial reaction was that it would look super on the Christmas table filled with home produced sweetmeats. That's when I started playing around with home made fruits of this type. To start with I could not find a recipe for glace ginger, crystallised ginger or stem ginger in syrup. My first attempt wasn't bad and my father certainly liked it and it kept for well over a year. Since then recipes have become a...