Candied fruit, Glacé fruit

this is the first time that I try out this recipe. In Slovenia a typical cookies for Christmas are Medenjaki (cookies with honey) and the best Medenjaki are with candied fruit. I don't trust to buy them except if they are organic but I in Slovenia I never found them.

For this recipe I use the peel of organic lemon and orange. I made them using the short recipe, because I didn't have 3 days for the classic - long procedure.


Ingredients
10 organic oranges or lemon peel
sugar


Short procedure


I made the Candied fruit with the short procedure.
Cut the peel at julienne. We cook the peel in the boiling water for 2 minutes, wait until cool down. Change the water and re do the procedure for another 2 times.

We drain the peel and weight them. In a pot we prepare the syrup, we add the same weight of the peel of sugar and water in my case I had 100g of peels and I made the syrup of 100g sugar and 100g of water. Than we cook the peels in this syrup until is concentrate. In my case it takes 10 minutes, but you can add less water and it will be faster (as I did the second time I made them).

Important: 
- in this procedure you must be careful because the sugar must not became caramel.
- the temperature of the sugar is very high can be at 170 °C (340 °F) or higher. I don't allow any child to be near me when I'm cooking the syrup.

Procedure (long)


Cut the peel at julienne. Sock them for 3 days in the cold water, change the water 2 or 3 times every day. With this procedure the peel will loose the bitterness.

Candied orange peel. On the left are nice and I use it for decoration,
with the candied on the right I  made cookies.

In a large pot prepare the syrup, mix 200g of sugar and 100g of water. Cook the peel in the water and sugar for a few minutes. Than take them out and leave at room temperature to dry for 24 hours. Save the syrup, you will have to do this procedure another 2 times in the next 2 days. Every time dry the peel for 24 hours.

If we want to roll the peels in the granular sugar, we have to do it the last day. We cook the peel for the last time in the syrup, we leave them to dry. When they are almost dry, but still a little bit wet, we roll the in granular sugar.