3 Delicious Things to Make with Your Surplus Citrus

From fancy limoncello to birthday cake, ways to use your extra lemons, grapefruit, oranges, tangerines (and so on).

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Did you remember to fertilize your citrus tree this past year? To water, trim, cover during frost, and otherwise nurture what’s now a late-winter bounty? Good job.

Now, what to do with your crop?!

If you’re all juiced out – and your friends, family, and neighbors are, too – but you’re still facing bags and bags of soon-to-be-rotting fruit, we’ve got some creative suggestions for putting your citrus to good use. (Beyond donating it to a food bank, which is always a good idea.)

Happy birthday, indeed.

Rachel Miller

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