cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Ingredients
- 4 orange carcasses (after making all your carrot cakes), pulverised or chopped into little pieces
- 2 oranges washed and very thinly sliced
- 90 g sugar
- 500 ml water
Instructions
- Boil all of the above in a pan for approx 25 mins until all the fruit and skin is very mushy.
- Pulverise in a food processor (ideally) or with a stick blender. Decant into sterilized jars. You can leave some whole bits in for texture if you like. Makes approximately 2 and a quarter lb of spread.
- Spread a dessertspoon onto warm toast for a hungry moment…
- Make this once in the month, portion size 20g per person per meal.
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