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ny21

Sun, Oct 15 2006, 8:11 pm

you can take cloves and stick them in the esrog and use it for havdallah

chen

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 9:32 am

Use for softball practice.
Make your linen closet smell nice.
Let dry for about 20 years till it shrivels down to the size of a walnut. drill holes thru center, string on cord and wear as a necklace. Oversize bead necklaces are very "in" right now.
Make key-lime pie using esrogim instead of limes.
Marinate in alcohol and use for perfume. (actually we know someone who makes a sort of esrog liqueur. I've never tasted it so I can't say how it is.)
Two can be earrings for a giant.
Cluster about half a dozen esrogim in a bowl with haddassim leaves and use as a natural room-freshener-come-centerpiece.
Hang up about 7 or 8 on different length of string for wind chimes. It won't sound like anything but it will smell fabulous!
Learn to juggle.
Nursing students:use for practicing giving injections.
Draw a face with permanent marker and use as a replacement doll head.
Let dry till the texture of wood. Throw into your woodburning stove, fireplace or grill.
Plant in your backyard and hope it sprouts.

momof6

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 9:37 am

ok Chen, you did it again!!!!!
I'm going to join the Chen fan club!!!
LOL

Seriously, how do you make an esrog spice box???
I've always wanted to make one, but my esrog get's moldy, EEw!

chen

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 10:54 am

esrog pomanders (stuck full of cloves) are hit-or-miss. The trick, which I still haven't mastered, is to pierce the skin only partway--deep enough to hold the cloves in place but not deep enough to reach the inner pulp. Once you hit the fruit pulp inside, you're sunk--the esrog will rot.

The only way to know for sure how thick the rind is--short of getting an MRI--is to slice open the esrog. Once you have done that, you can say "oh, look how thick the skin is, this one would have made a perfect besamim ball" and then put it in to soak for esrog jam.

ny21

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 8:35 pm

I tried to use cloves in my esrog and quit !

dont try this at home Crying

Chen you forgot the obvious Crying

make jam out of it .

mirisimma

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 8:55 pm

dried esrog in bed of dried rose petals = pot pori (however you spel that...)

ny21

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 8:56 pm

the t is silent when you pronounce that word,

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happyone

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 9:11 pm

Potpourri

Purple Hug Bunny

Mon, Oct 16 2006, 11:26 pm

happyone wrote:

Potpourri

You took the "word" right ouf of my keyboard..
(well, ok, your keyboard).

chen

Tue, Oct 17 2006, 8:09 am

momoftwins wrote:

Chen you forgot the obvious Crying

make jam out of it .

I didn't forget--as we speak my sliced esrogim are soaking in the fridge--but this was posted under "games". making jam is not a game.

mirisimma

Tue, Oct 17 2006, 9:36 am

fried esrog in bed of dried hadasim = potpourri

Flower

ny21

Tue, Oct 17 2006, 11:13 am

squeeze the juice in your hair for blonde high lights

chen

Tue, Oct 17 2006, 2:32 pm

mirisimma wrote:

fried esrog in bed of dried hadasim = potpourri

Flower

fried esrog? ah, why not? you can fry anything and it'll taste good.

mirisimma

Wed, Oct 18 2006, 9:17 am

dried... sorry f and d so close

chen

Wed, Oct 18 2006, 1:09 pm

oh, drat--here I thought we had a new taste sensation. LOL

supermom

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 7:10 am

Quote:

Marinate in alcohol and use for perfume

How is this done and for how long?

chen

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 10:12 am

dunno. this thread was posted under Games, not under Recipes.
presumably making perfume would be exactly like making liqueur, omitting the sugar syrup, of course. but since I don't know how to make the hooch, and since the one person I know who makes it guards the secret as jealously as the Abishter guards Bnei Yisroel, lehavdil, I'm not likley to get ahold of it any time soon.

ny21

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 10:57 am

you can cut the esrog in half and polish your wood furniture

ny21

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 10:59 am

you can cut it into slices

and serve it on the side of a glass

ny21

Fri, Sep 07 2007, 1:38 pm

slice it and squeeze it into you''r tea like a lemon .

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