Cooking question

[mattp]

mhw and valkyriekaren you come to mind, but I'm sure there are other cooking gurus on my flist.

I have an idea for what I want to do, but not how to do it.

I have some chilli chocolate, and I'd like to cover orange peel in it to make a snack. My question is how to sweeten the orange peel. If I boil them in sugar water will they just go soggy, or will they (as I hope) caramalise and become less sharp? What can I do with the flesh of the oranges?

It's beginning to sound a bit like a jam or marmalade, but I've never made either of those so I've noting to base it on.

Does anyone have any bright ideas?

Comments

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

For that, I'd buy some candied orange peel and slice it to the required size. Sainsbury sell a rather decent box of mixed peel - orange, lemon and citron. It's in large pieces - almost as if the fruits were skinned to just above the pith. I've been using in it pagan buns.
Chilli chocolate also goes very well in chilli con carne!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Try this:
http://www.waitrose.com/food_drink/recipes/recipesearch/recipe/0102053-r07.asp

I've never done it but it sounds like it ought to work - basically you make it in large pieces, so unlike marmalade or jam where the object is to suspend the fruit in a sugary syrup, you're trying to get the syrup into the fruit.

[ludy]

If you don't want to use ready canded peel then make sure you only use peel from unwaxed oranges because the waxes used to make citrus friut look shiny and last longer aren't meant to be eaten.