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Tip

Smell the zest, not the juice

Still-green lemon on its branch surrounded by leaves, in a garden in Crete

Small thing I picked up: the scent of a lemon sits in the coloured zest, the outer layer of the peel, where the oil is. The white pith underneath is just sponge. So when I practise I scratch the zest with a nail and leave the juice alone. The club's lemon page on the two layers of the rind has the detail.

Lemon

2 comments

dex_in_brooklyn

this is why chef yells if you're digging into the pith with the microplane. bitter and zero smell

mags.lavender

Morning all, lovely tip. I've wasted a lot of lemons squeezing the juice when the good bit went in the bin. Mags x