Homemade Sausage Making

[USA]"Cowpuncher's Candied Orange"
(Grandpa's Orange Ranch Candy)

Six orange rinds
3-1/2 cups sugar
2 tblspns. corn syrup
2 tspns. ginger
1/4 tspn. salt
2 cups water
1 tspn. unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup water (for soaking gelatin)
granulated sugar

This is a terrific recipe for any grandpa to share with his grandchildren. While sitting around the campfire stretching the truth, use a razor-sharp pocketknife to cut the rinds from six oranges into 1/4" strips and remove the white membrane carefully. Boil the peelings 15 minutes then rinse them. Repeat the boiling, rinsing twice to remove the bitters.

Prepare a simmering mixture by mixing the sugar, corn syrup, ginger, and salt. Simmer the mixture and the orange strips slowly (40 minutes) over low heat, stirring it often. Add a teaspoon of unflavored gelatin that has been softened in 1/2 cup of water. Allow the strips to cool before rolling them in granulated sugar one at a time. Dry the strips on a cookie sheet several hours then store them inside a tightly sealed jar. Amazing, but true, the rind oil before boiling, is actually flammable. Squeeze the oil from an orange rind while holding a match below it and watch what happens.

Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon

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Watch for my next great opus: nitrite- versus nitroglycerine-cured meats. I plan to rate them (in units of megatons) for flame propagation rate as well as flavor. Supplies can be purchased in either the camp cookery or ammo departments of sausage equipment suppliers and local military surplus stores, or from an arms dealer near you. (Some State Department sanctions may apply.)