"Dee.Dee" > wrote in message
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> I am totally confounded by the term, candied fruit, vs. candied peel.
>
> Re Candied Lemon peel:
> http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/...0570&id=1 078
> My links, tiny or otherwise never seem to show up.
>
> Shown online KingArthurs catalog, they show the lemon peel in square-ish
> pieces like I'm used to seeing in the grocery store. How can this be,
> when peel is such a fine sliver. Has it become like a 'breaded piece of
> meat," picking up the sugar as it candies?

Citrus peel can be quite thick. I've seen some that was thinner, but some
is quite thick.