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What do bartenders use to peel oranges?.
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Many professional bartenders use the oleo saccharum technique to get additional life out of partially-used citrus, such as lemon slices or peels that were cut for garnishes but not used by the end of the night at the bar. Peel the citrus first, then toss the peels you don’t need with sugar to make oleo saccharum. If your drink recipe calls for citrus juice and/or a single peel as a garnish, you can easily make use of the rest of the fruit that might go to waste. Images: Camper English Oleo Saccharum and Sustainability Sugar extracts the orange oils, forming a sweet and citrusy syrup.

Or use oleo to add a new flavor to a standard cocktail, like a grapefruit-tinged Daiquiri or an orange Whiskey Sour. Use lemon oleo in a turbo-charged lemonade, orange oleo in your Old Fashioned, or lime oleo in a delicious Ti’ Punch. The easiest way to use the oleo is as you would use an unflavored sugar, or as a simple syrup by adding an equal volume of water to the oleo. Oranges, grapefruits, lemons, and to a lesser extent limes (harder to peel can be bitter) can be turned into oleo saccharum. You can get another use out of the citrus peels by candying them, which we’ll get into below.

If you’re not using the prepared oleo saccharum for a few days, strain or pull out the citrus peels, wiping off the liquid oils clinging to them back into the sugar, and store the peels separately. (In a pinch, a faster way of making oleo is to simply muddle citrus peels with sugar, but it’s more fun to let it happen naturally.) You can even use a resealable bag like a Ziplock. Most bartenders leave the peels in the sugar overnight in a sealed container or in a vacuum bag, such as is used for sous vide cooking. If you use a lot of sugar relative to the quantity of peels, you’ll get a flavored sugar.
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If you use a small amount of sugar you’ll have a concentrated oily syrup (feel free to dilute it after). Within a few hours the sugar will pull the oils out of the peels and the sugar will turn to liquid. Simply peel a citrus fruit and cover the peels with sugar in a bowl or other container. Images: Camper English Making Oleo Saccharum This performed double duty of extracting the citrus oils and liquifying some of the sugar. According to Wondrich’s oleo saccharum entry in “ The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails,” in olden days drink makers would rub the outside of citrus fruits on the hard sugar loaves. In the early days of punch, sugar came in hard clumps or loaves that bartenders had to break up and often clarify themselves. Now it is back, and you can think of oleo as an old-timey ingredient or as a smart new-to-you technique that can be used with an eye toward sustainability: More on that in a second. The recent rediscovery and renaissance of oleo can be credited to David Wondrich in his book “ Punch.” In the book, Wondrich writes about the history of oleo and includes many recipes like the Endeavor Punch that calls for lemon oleo saccharum along with rum, Madeira, and citrus juices.Īs Victorian-era punch fell out of fashion in favor of single-sized servings of cocktails like slings and juleps, oleo also fell by the wayside. Way back in the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, oleo saccharum was considered an essential ingredient in punch. The technique produces a flavored sugar or syrup to use in cocktails. Meaning “sugar oil” in Latin, oleo saccharum is the result of placing citrus peels in sugar to pull out their essential oils. It’s a simple ingredient with a fancy name: oleo saccharum.
