Tangerines, clementines, satsumas etc.

SoCalZone10 said:
What do you think of this recipe, I don’t want to spend all my time scrubbing my satsuma and this is not a good cake. I think cooking this will make my house smell good. Not sure if my husband can take the aroma though, lately he is very sensitive to my herbs.

Clementine Cake Recipe | Nigella Lawson | Food Network
Recipes and Global Dishes | Food Network UK
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It's Nigella's borrow of a very famous orange and almond cake recipe by the great Claudia Roden. It works. It's good. Edited to add - have not done Nigella's cake, but CR's is moist & fairly substantial. Not a light fluffy cake. Really good 😁
 
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vernplum said:
Years later I found these 'Mikan' oranges which are a similar variety ( I don't really know much about the taxonomy, nomenclature and relationships between oranges) which I do pick up now and again for a treat, as they're bleedin' expensive (like a quid each), having been imported from Japan. I enjoy them best at fridge temperature.
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Had a look. Satsumas by another name 😅
 
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Mod.note: Any posts about using citrus fruit are welcome in this thread.


Z-Cook said:
It's Nigella's borrow of a very famous orange and almond cake recipe by the great Claudia Roden. It works. It's good. Edited to add - have not done Nigella's cake, but CR's is moist & fairly substantial. Not a light fluffy cake. Really good 😁
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Its a great trick to simmer whole citrus fruit and then blitz them whole to use in cakes (and other things). This is a lovely (and simple) recipe.
 
My navel orange is just turning color, not ready to eat yet. However the Washington Navel is much bigger, sweeter, and are ready, but I leave them out there in the tree for decorations for the moment. Let’s hope I get to enjoy some. Since it’s grown in container, I only get 5-6 large ones each year.
 
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My daughter said to bring some satsumas to the senior center and I did. So now I have less, I’m going to pick the smaller satsumas to make this cake.
 
I am curious as to why you are picking them all at once. I have a lemon tree and I have found it better not to pick the lemons when they are ready because they (being unwaxed) go bad quite quickly. But if I leave them on the tree, they stay fresh for months. I only pick them when I need them. I know when we were travelling through Greece and Turkey over the December/January period, people only picked what they needed from the trees. They did not pick all fruits off a single tree in one go, so is there a reason you are picking the tree clean and leaving yourself with this problem? - just curious.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I am curious as to why you are picking them all at once. I have a lemon tree and I have found it better not to pick the lemons when they are ready because they (being unwaxed) go bad quite quickly. But if I leave them on the tree, they stay fresh for months. I only pick them when I need them. I know when we were travelling through Greece and Turkey over the December/January period, people only picked what they needed from the trees. They did not pick all fruits off a single tree in one go, so is there a reason you are picking the tree clean and leaving yourself with this problem? - just curious.
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The big rain is coming, several inches of rain is coming for SoCal, and I also noticed 1/4 of my tree is being consumed by rats/mouse already, I take no more chance. They don’t eat lemons but they do with satsumas.
 
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