Ingredients

• 1 kg of oranges (better with thick skin)
• 1 kg of sugar
• 2.5 – 3  glasses of water
• Juice from half lemon

Method

1. Wash the fruits.
2. Scratch the skin of the oranges (with a – thin scraper only to remove the very outer layer of the skin that is bitter enough).
3. Cut the skin of every orange in 6 – 8 pieces.
4. Roll the pieces of skin and stick – them with a toothpick (its easier), or fasten them with a fiber.

   

5. Boil the rolled pieces of orange skin 3 times for 4-5 minutes each time, with fresh water.

6. Make a syrup with the sugar and the water.(after it begins to boiling keep boiling the syrup for 5 minutes).

7. Then throw the pieces of the orange skin in the syrup and keep boiling till the – correct density*.

8. - (You pour the lemon juice near the end of the cooking.)

9.  Remove the toothpicks or fiber when its is cool.

10. *The – correct density for the syrup of “spoon candies” can – be checked with many ways but for beginners here is a method that most times works well enough.

11. With a clear spoon pick up little syrup from the saucepan and pour it on a small plate.

12. Then blow to cool it down and see how it looks.

13. It must be such dense that when you pass the edge of a spoon through it, to remain a “channel”.

14. Most fruits produce “foam” in the beginning of the procedure. You have to remove it with a spoon. Also you must be careful because they plump up when the foam occur.