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I have made great orange cookies that call for grated orange peel, usually called zest on the cooking shows...same for great lemon cookies..

“... made great orange cookies that called for zest...”

You can add orange or lemon zest to cheesecake as well. YUM..... cheesecake!

My grandmother use to take her honey comb and all. Just bite off a piece. That was back in the 40-50s when she lived with us part time...You could buy honey comb by the piece in the grocery store...She was born in the 1800’s...lived to be 90 and could gum a piece of steak without teeth...Never saw her wear her dentures...we lived a simple life....:O)

You can probably still buy honey comb; I do recall seeing it from time to time. It's far too sweet for me, although I could chew on it just fine when I was a child. What I was referring to, anyway, was the color and appearance of the honey in the pictures at that link. It didn't look like any honey I ever remember seeing, that came straight from the hive. Not only did my stepfather's business partner keep bees, my mother even tried it for a while. Until I stepped into a swarm hidden in tall grass (ouch)...

I have made great orange cookies that call for grated orange peel, usually called zest on the cooking shows...same for great lemon cookies..

I believe the zest is just the colored part on the surface. I use the zest in cooking, sometimes, too. Lemon or orange zest gives a nice flavor to homemade cranberry sauce.

Orange "juice" also contains whatever is pressed out from the white stuff and the seeds. And I can't stand the taste of it... it bears as much resemblance to oranges as apple juice/cider does to apples, or strawberry jam/ice cream does to strawberries.