Brit-Speak: Food

[justcarol67]

> Carol:
> Sounds delicious, Kneasy! But what does "zest only" mean? 
 
> Chancie:
> I'm not Kneasy of course, but I can answer your question.  Zest is
the yellow color on the lemon ( the same it true for orange, lime
ext...) and is a gives off a very intence flavor.  Almost like the
natural version of extracts.  If you've ever cut open a lemon
(orange...) you will see that the color is only in a thin layer on the
very out side.  They have a special tool to get the zest off a fruit,
but if you take a seraded knife and carefully scrape the blade on the
fruit you can remove the zest.
> But when doing this in any form you MUST be careful not to remove 
> so much zest that you also remove the white (pith)!  It is bitter,
and will not give you as good of a result.  
> 

Carol:
I have a grater that would work, but, being lazy, I'd probably just
use lemon peel from the bottled herbs and spices section of the
grocery store, possibly supplemented with (liquid) lemon extract.

Carol, who hates to peel oranges because the white stuff gets under
your fingernails