Cumquats: The French Alternative
It’s cumquat eating time! The problem is that cumquats are a bit tart eaten straight from the tree, and although you don’t want to waste your cumquats you might not want to go to the trouble of making cumquat marmalade. Jackie French has the perfect solution: use some of those excess cumquats to make an absolutely delicious, sophisticated, after-dinner treat
Ingredients
- 3 cups cumquats
- 2 cups water
- 3 cups sugar
Method
Place cumquats and water in a saucepan and boil for 30 minutes. Add the sugar, boil for another 10 minutes then turn off the heat. Leave overnight. Next day bring the mixture to the boil, but be careful it does not burn. As soon as it starts to bubble turn off the heat and leave the fruit in the syrup until cool. You can then cover the cumquat candies in chocolate, use them to decorate cakes, or just eat them plain as an after-dinner treat.