Citrus Cleaners - so easy and good. I recycle the peelings of Oranges and Lemons...although I usually run out of lemon cleaner, as I don't eat lemons, like I do with oranges.... Citrus Cleaner is Oh so easy to make....Citrus Cleaners are so expensive in the shops, and if you use citrus, you just keep adding to the jar, as you eat an orange, or use a lemon. All you need is vinegar and the citrus peel... Here is my Orange Cleaner that I use in the kitchen.....it is excellent for wiping down the stove and bench-tops. Here are the lemons I needed to juice today for the Quince & Apple Jam....before juicing them, I peeled them with a vegetable peeler, to make my Lemon Citrus Cleaner....using a peeler leaves behind the unwanted pith. 3/4 fill a wide brimmed glass jar with white vinegar.... then start adding your lemon peel, just like the orange cleaner above.....
I use this lemon cleaner for the bathroom vanity, but I ran out a few months ago...and have just been using the orange one. You can see how the lemon oils are already starting. How-to's. Cleaning. I use my oven a lot, probably five times a week on average. Everything goes in there - bread, scones, cakes, biscuits, pies, quiches, roast chicken, leg of lamb, pork shoulder, meatloaf - all cooked from scratch and all baked in my trusty, and sometimes crusty, oven. I cleaned it out about two months ago when it was very dirty after a winter of casseroles and roasts. This time it wasn't so bad but it still needed a good clean. Now we're set for Christmas and if anyone wants to quickly heat up something they bring over, I can tell them to go for it instead of grabbing the plate, saying: "I'll do that, you sit down.
" LOL Oven door, pre-cleaning. I'm sure you know there is nothing magical about cleaning an oven or stove, but the feeling you get after you do it is probably 25 percent better than the clean fridge feeling. ;- ) But with any job, particularly those you don't really want to do, your attitude makes a big difference. Finished job. All done! Stephanie Alexander’s Old Fashioned Lemon Cordial.
Ohhhhhh I wonder if I’m going to have time to post this before Oliver and I fly out the door! Mathew’s walking Oliver up and down the wet London streets under the pretext of my need to pack. For the first time since Oliver was born, we’re heading off without Mathew. My lovely old uni friend, housemate, food accomplice and dog sharer, Lizzie Nolan (I mean Reeve… I never get used to the name changes!) Is taking us to the English coastline. Somewhere. Doesn’t matter where to me.
Back to the post- here’s what I made with the remaining lemons back at home. I would never have made it, normally, except that my darling mum brought some over for me to try and it was DELICIOUS. 2 kg castor sugar (I’ve made this with 1.5kg castor sugar and 500g raw sugar for a more caramel flavour, I’m sure you can experiment with these amounts and different sugars) 1 litre water 30g citric acid 30g tartaric acid juice from 6-8 lemons, strained finely grated zest from 2 lemons.
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