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Chenpi, chen pi, or chimpi is sun-dried mandarin orange peel used as a traditional seasoning in Chinese cooking and traditional medicine. It is aged by storing them dry. The taste is first slightly sweet, but the aftertaste is pungent and bitter. According to Chinese herbology, its attribute is warm. Chenpi has a common name, 'ju pi' or ...
Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book (Chinese: 培梅食譜) is a cookbook series by Fu Pei-mei, written in both Chinese and English. [1] There were three volumes, the first published in 1969 and the last published in 1979. [2] The sales of the first volume reached 500,000. [3]
A ripe mandarin orange is firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size, and pebbly-skinned. The peel is thin and loose, with little white mesocarp, so they are usually easier to peel and to split into segments. Hybrids have these traits to lesser degrees. The mandarin orange is tender and is damaged easily by cold.
Using clean fingers, grab the tip of the skin on one end of one of these wedges, and gently peel the skin off of the flesh. Repeat to peel all 4 wedges. Enjoy as-is, or slice or dice as desired to ...
The white portion of the peel under the zest (pith, albedo or mesocarp) may be unpleasantly bitter and is generally avoided by limiting the peeling depth. Some citrus fruits have so little white mesocarp that their peel can be used whole. [4] Dried mandarin peel used whole as a seasoning (chenpi in Chinese).
Other recipes may contain anise seed, ginger root, nutmeg, turmeric, Amomum villosum pods (shārén 砂仁), Amomum cardamomum pods (báidòukòu 白豆蔻), licorice, Mandarin orange peel or galangal. In Southern China, Cinnamomum loureiroi and Mandarin orange peel are commonly used as substitutes for Cinnamomum cassia and cloves respectively ...
Fruits with many segments, such as the grapefruit or pomelo, have more vesicles per segment than fruits with fewer segments, such as the kumquat and mandarin. [1] Each vesicle in a segment in citrus fruits has approximately the same shape, size, and weight. [2] About 5% of the weight of an average orange is made up of the membranes of the juice ...
The fruit was created as a cross between a non-pure mandarin orange and a hybrid pomelo that had a substantial mandarin component. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Since its chloroplast DNA is that of pomelo, it was likely the hybrid pomelo, perhaps a pomelo BC1 backcross , that was the maternal parent of the first orange.