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Yuzu! 🧵1/
Last week I traded a bunch of peppers for 15 yuzus off a friend’s tree. This is what I did with them.
Pic below, I already grated the fruit with a microplane.
🧵 2/
I grated the peels with a microplane to make yuzucello. I used 75% everclear and I let it seep for a week.
The alcohol was too strong and pungent. For serving I have to water it down with ice cubes.
It doesn’t really taste like limoncello. It tastes more like sweet orange juice (but less heavy) and orange flower water.
https://www.italianrecipebook.com/limoncello-recipe/
I plan to use the yuzucello for cooking and baking in place of vinegar, mirin, wines and lemon juice when I don’t have fresh.
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I used some of the yuzu peel to make gin from plants that I grow. This time I used vodka.
Coriander seed
Eastern red cedar
Epazote
Fennel seed
Jabuticaba (peel and some juice)
Lavender
Nipponquat peel
Mint
Mitchella repens
Tumeric leaf
Yuzu peel (dried)
Eastern red cedar is fairly sweet to I chose aromatics that would match/compliment it.
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When I juiced the fruit I got a lot of leftover pulp. I froze most of it in ice trays but I used some for a few dishes already.
Below is vegan yuzu posset. I used coconut cream instead of heavy cream and also added some yuzu pulp for texture. It was really good.
Yuzus are not as sour as regular lemons and it’s possible to eat/drink the fruit from hand. They have a more complex flavor with hints of pummelo and citrus flower.
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I added yuzu pulp to guava paste and vegan cream cheese to make jam for baking. The vegan cream cheese (kitehill) did not taste good at all so I kept adding more and more guava and yuzu to make it palatable. When it finished baking, it turned out better.
The sweet buns have jackfruit leaf in the dough, so they appear slightly green. When cooked at a low heat jackfruit leaf has a pandan leaf taste.
7/
I washed and packed the seeds for passing out to parents on Halloween. Also included were red hybrid jabuticaba seeds.
Yuzus are cold-hardy to zone 7b as well as being disease and pest resistant.
Everyone seemed pretty excited about the seeds. ❤️😊 We didn’t have many trick or treaters but I managed to give away all but three bags.
Bob JonkmanThis is such a great thread! I had never heard of Yuzu until now, and your thoroughness in using every part of the fruit is inspiring.
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼Jabuticaba! Wow, you're so lucky.
I wonder if they would survive in The Netherlands.
@pascaline these are red hybrid jabuticaba, which are precocious and dwarfing so they can grow in a pot to bring inside in winter.
It should be ok to grow them in NL so long as you bring in the plant before it gets to 0C. ❤️
There are Dutch, Portuguese and German seed importers who sell them in the EU. The seeds germinate very quickly so they are not always in stock, just set up an alert and pick up when they come available again.
I will have to try this. Thanks 😊
@pascaline I made a thread for them here for more info ❤️
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Attached: 1 image Jabuticaba (red hybrid, escarlate) 🌱🧵 TL;DR -compact shrubby tree -bring indoors in freezing temps -needs fertilizer -extremely productive -doesn’t need pollinator -delicious nutrient-dense fruit -fruit has short shelf-life so… -methods of preservation #ClimateChangeGardening #gardening #jardin #jardim #fruit #fruta #permaculture #GrowYourOwn #fermentation #foodsecurity
8/ Grocery store yuzus are not good.
The aromatics degrade over time after the fruit is picked. You can find yuzus at specialty grocery stores but they are basically scentless. I wonder if they are also spayed or washed besides being put into cold storage because fresh yuzus are intensely aromatic.
When I got the fruit from my friend, I immediately put them in the fridge to work on the next day. You could smell the fruit from outside the fridge and it scented up the whole kitchen.
Malka Beth@jblue reminding me of among my top 5 citrus plants to get & grow, as they're cold hearty down to 0°F, so as long as I keep a "spare" inside I should be able to plant one or 2 outside safely as it doesn't get below that more than once every 5 years here.
I love the scents of citrus fruits in general & mostly use them for their zest.
@BrahmaBelarusian do you know thomasville cintrangequat? That’s super cold hardy too and has a lot of uses, from green to yellow and finally ripe at orange. The whole citrus is edible.
Nipponquat is a work horse of a plant if you want something small and productive with some cold-hardiness.
@jblue thanks for the addition, in looking it up just now (on the citrus budwood site) I guess it'd be good for a lemon like juice in a cold hearty plant. Rind being thin so???
It's -3F durability would give us a decade between possible dangers to it.
@jblue if I had to proportion out my citrus use it'd be around
70% zest & rind for baking
10% scent, for room cleaning/freshening
20% juice for a few glasses of lemonade/cold orange juice in the 14 is days/year it gets near 100°F here.
@BrahmaBelarusian if there is any danger of extreme cold weather, you can hang incandescent Christmas lights on the branches (turn them on) and then cover with a bedsheet or frost blanket and then plastic tarp or trash bags overtop. It’ll be nice and toasty.
@jblue In looking at them overall I think juglone intolerance is pretty certainly a far bigger problem for my citrus growing outside than the cold weather that never really lasts very long, which is why I might build planters/raised beds for them around my shed or at least sizably mound the soil for them.
@BrahmaBelarusian citrus does better in pots anyway bc they like very well draining soil, especially in winter
@jblue
That sounds absolutely wonderful 💛
That sounds absolutely wonderful 💛
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Just made apple pie with yuzucello and vanilla paste. I just chopped the apples and swished around a Tb of yuzucello and vanilla in a bowl. The alcohol bled in with the apples in the baking so you couldn’t tell the boundary between apple and citrus. Pretty good.
I used Arkansas black apples which are very high in pectin. They don’t lose shape in baking.
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I softened and mixed the vegan butter with Eastern red cedar and yuzucello then stuck back in the fridge to harden before stuffing in the apples.
I felt like I used a lot of juniper but the taste barely registered. EUsians - eastern red cedar is a sweet, mildly herbal juniper. It’s tasty out of hand. Not like the EU juniper.
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