Dried fruit Christmas garland

Name: Dried fruit Christmas garland
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Assorted citrus fruits, e.g lemons, Clementine, limes, oranges; sticks Cinnamon; Fir cones; Candy canes; Ribbon; String

Panda.s @cook_3715208

London/ Essex Border. U.K.

Not so much a recipe, more a decoration

Panda.s @cook_3715208

London/ Essex Border. U.K.

Not so much a recipe, more a decoration

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Ingredients

Assorted citrus fruits, e.g lemons, Clementine, limes, oranges
sticksCinnamon
Fir cones
Candy canes
Ribbon
String

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Steps

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Slice some of the fruit around quarter of an inch thick, place on absorbent kitchen paper. Pre heat oven to 90 c / 190 f
2

Make 6 cuts to some of the whole fruit, towards the centre but not right through.
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Line baking sheets with parchment or greaseproof paper.
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Arrange fruit in single layers on tray.
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Place trays in oven for at least two hours, turn fruit occasionally. Allow to 'cook until fruit drys out, whole fruit will take longer.
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Remove from oven, allow to cool completely. Carefully make holes in centre of slices with a skewer.
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Thread onto string, alternating fruits,cones, candy canes, cinnamon sticks and ribbons.
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Hang in prefered location.
9

I used some orange slices removed from my mulled wine and dried them, they smelled like mulled wine once dried, adding another dimension !

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Panda.s @cook_3715208

on December 23, 2019 13:56

London/ Essex Border. U.K.

When I left school I trained as a chef,worked in 5*London hotel for a few years.Drifted into transport planning,retired, do most of the cooking at home.Now have more time to play (experiment) in the kitchen, like to add my own twist to recipes ( my wife calls it 'tampering'!) bake bread and make / decorate novelty cakes for family and close friends.Two daughters and three grandchildren. Celebrated Ruby wedding anniversary with wife Pam 2014.