Citron Reprise

I found a recipe

I don't follow recipes... I read them through and then try to figger how to use the ingredients I have...

The important ingredients in that recipe seemed to be the citrons, some citrus fruit and sugar.

even the cooking of ingredients separately seemed unnecessary.

I have all these hardy oranges (Citrus trifoliata) that fall from the thicket each year at this time, and rot enough for the seeds in each fruit to come up and expand the thorny barrier...

 

So...

after gathering up fallen 'oranges', I sliced them up and removed all the seed I could...

Added to sugar water already on the heat...

 

And diced up some slices of citron melon (no pics), sorry...

 Cooked until citron melon turned translucent...

 

Ok, it doesn't actually look too good while cooking...

But, after turning down heat on first batch?

I ate half the fruit while still hot!

 After refrigerating as advised in the recipe linked to, I felt like the fruit would be nice in pancakes...

 

Made a very nice breakfast... Poured the liquid into pancake batter and sprinkled fruit on top of cakes while cooking...

 Incidentally, placing a bowl of the liquid in the freezer produced sherbet...

 Surprisingly versatile fruit... for something not grown anymore...