Take a second look! These are not lemons, but citrons, cultivated by my cousins Evelina and Salvo in their front garden. In Sicily between Christmas and the end of April, the landscape is in bloom with fragrant, juicy citrus fruits such as these. Cultivated for its thick, white, fragrant rind, citron makes an out-of-this-world marmalade…
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Not A Big, Ugly Lemon
In Sicily between Christmas and the end of April, the landscape is in bloom with fragrant, juicy citrus fruits such as this one. No, this is not a big, crazy looking lemon; it’s a citron. Still a citrus fruit, it has a character all its own. It is cultivated for its thick, white, fragrant inner…
Watch What You Say
Called Lingua di Suocera, or Mother-Law’s Tongue, perhaps these biscotti get their name from the acerbic taste of the central ingredient that’s wrapped within the sweet butter cookie: citron or lemon marmalade. It seems many Sicilian pastries have a sense of humor! These were photographed at Pasticceria Maria Grammatico in Erice.
Between Christmas and the end of April in Sicily, the landscape is in bloom with fragrant, juicy citrus fruits such as this one. No, this is not a lemon; it’s a citron. Citron is a big, ugly lemon that isn’t a lemon at all. Still a citrus fruit, it has a character all its own….