All Work And No Play Make Jack Candy Kumquats

Reader, are you in for a whacky couple of weeks.

Welcome to finals season. This is where I, The Amateur Gourmet, go a little nutty (as if I weren’t nutty enough already) with crazy schedules, weird cravings, and inexplicable forays into the kitchen. Many law students smoke as they suffer their way through finals; I bake.

Or in this case, I candy. Kumquats. Tonight I candied kumquats.

Lauren said: “What are you making?”

“Not making,” I said. “Candying. Kumquats. I’m candying kumquats.”

Here’s how that works:

You get a bunch of kumquats and you slice them (according to the recipe I pulled up at foodtv.com):

Weird how they look like tomatoes and yet they’re nothing like tomatoes.

Moving on: you boil some sugar and water:

IMG_2.JPG

Add the kumquats:

IMG_3.JPG

Simmer and drain ’em:

IMG_4.JPG

And that’s it. What do they taste like? Soggy, sugary kumquats. Like candied kumquats. I candied kumquats.

2 thoughts on “All Work And No Play Make Jack Candy Kumquats”

  1. I think you might try simmering the kumquats until the liquid becomes a thick syrup. (This might take a few hours). If you then remove the kumquats to a drying rack and leave them out drying for a day, they’ll be fine. Not soggy at all, and quite tasty.

Comments are closed.

Scroll to Top