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I don't know what Kornfeld does exactly, but my version (thanks to various recipes on t'interweb) was:
2 thick-skinned Valencia or navel oranges
350ml granulated sugar
150ml water
Caster sugar for rolling
100g Lindt 85% chocolate. (You can use a lower percentage, but the peels themselves are very sweet, and you really need the bitterness of a high-cocoa chocolate to offset it)
Cut tops and bottoms off of the orange and score the orange into quarters, cutting down only into the peel and not into the fruit. Peel the skin and pith of the orange into quarters. Cut the peel into strips about 6mm wide.
Put the orange peel in a large saucepan with cold water to cover, bring to a boil over high heat. Pour off the water. This is important to remove the bitter oils from the pith.
Cover again with cold water, bring to a boil again. Pour off the water.
Cover again with cold water, bring to a boil again. Strain the peels.
Whisk the sugar with the 150ml water while bring to a simmer and cook for 8 to 9 minutes (If you have a jam thermometer you want 230 to 234 degrees F, 110 to 112C.)
Reduce the heat to a simmer and add the peels - cook for about 45 minutes until the pith becomes translucent. Resist the urge to stir the peels or you may introduce sugar crystals into the syrup. If necessary, swirl the pan to move the peels around.
Drain the peels, save the syrup for next time!
Roll the peels in caster sugar and dry on a rack for 5 hours.
Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and half dip the peels, placing them on baking parchment or greaseproof paper to set – this will take a while, but it’s worth waiting.
Next time I might try using the juice instead of water to make the syrup to try an intensify the "oranginess" of the peels a little.
I know Kornfeld soaks his peels in cold water for three days, changing every 12 hours or so instead of the blanching I used (but this is lots quicker!)
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Only few comments...
1. I do not blanch the peels but soak them 3 days replacing the water twice a day
2. I do not add water while cooking - the peels already full of them (see 1.)
3. The amount of the sugar I use is exactly the half of the weight of the peels after 3 days soaking
4. I do not roll the peels in sugar after cooking, that makes them sticky but less sweet
5. You can eat them with no chocolate at all or use any kind you like - my favorite is 60% bittersweet (Belgian origin)
6. If you cut them up to little pieces it is wonderful to add to chocolate cakes (like those with no flour in it)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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The water is to dissolve the sugar before the peels get in there, and at that kind of temperature it's going to have boiled off before the peels arrive! 
BTW: Is it right to call you "Kornfeld"? Or is "Peter" / "Eilyahu" more appropriate - I have no idea which it polite in Israel, and which is rude... (if I've been wrong, then please accept my apologies and I plead ignorance and general stupidity)
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In Israel we call each-other by first-name (with very rare exceptions), so I'm being called Peter by most (as that is my first first-name)...
Call someone using family name or full name is mostly sign of the beginning of some rebuke...
In any case I didn't took it like that (should I?) as I already aware of differences in culture (read my profile and learn that I moved form Hungary to Israel - I can tell that is was really hard)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Peter it is then - sorry about that: that's why I asked, I suddenly realised it was probably your first name rather than family name... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: The water is to dissolve the sugar before the peels get in there
Sure, but in my case while the peels in the soak absorbed enough water for that...
Are you ready for some different cakes? After your hard work maybe? I did this weekend (mine is gone already) a no-flour chocolate cake - it was fantastic...Like a chocolate-intoxication...You need a week to forgot the intense taste of chocolate...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I tried this recipe, worked very well. But I agree with you that the juice might help in giving a more intense orange flavor. Or perhaps the 3-days of soaking as Peter suggested would preserve the flavor better?
Thanks all around...
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My agency just put my work group and some select clients through an Agile Boot camp. Early on we were told that everyone is a developer and those sub humans who write code are just um… coders. Then my supervisor jumps up and says so anyone can be a coder. We can have testers or anyone be the coders.
So from this we get if everyone is a developer then no one is the developer, and code if written at all can be written by any warm body if we bother to write it at all.
Anyone interested in pipe welding as a career? I hear it pays well.
It's always darkest before it goes completely black.
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Just think of the lucrative contracts available to sort the resulting mess out!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Earl Owens wrote: code if written at all can be written by any warm body
I've been to QA. Warmed-over is sufficient. 
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Does it matter if the bite marks show?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Depends.
Do you live (or undead) in Wales?[^] 
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Aspirin cures headaches. Oh, good, then it cures broken arm pain and toothache pain and every other ailment also.
Manager: We need a process. Let's try Agile.
6 weeks later...
Manager: After all that time spent learning Agile, we have learned that Agile is the be-all end-all.
It has to be or else we just wasted a lot of time and money learning a process we could've learned in a few hours.
Developer: Now you're on to something. Could've learned it in a few hours.
The truth is you cannot write a book about something you learn in a few hours. So books on Agile wouldn't sell unless they are long.
Also, Contracting and Training groups need long subjects to teach so they can charge vast amounts of money.
The heart of Agile is simple. But it has been falsely inflated for monetary gain.
Ugh.
If you've ever developed a substantial piece of software by yourself you probably found that you adhered to the basic principles of Agile. It's really that easy.
Everyone is a developer. Up until someone goes to do maintenance on their code.
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newton.saber wrote: Everyone is a developer. Up until someone goes to do maintenance on their code.
Then what do they become?
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A maintainer that sustains the code. It's called sustaining engineering.  Ugh.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Dead if I get my way.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Annoyed. Angry. Disturbed. Confused. Miserable.  Suspicious. Late to dinner. Bald.
Edit...
Oh, wait, that's what you become when you go to do maintenance on their code.
They become...uh...err...
Unavailable.
modified 6-Nov-14 16:03pm.
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A Roto-Rooter [^].
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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A former employee?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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-- The heart of Agile is simple. But it has been falsely inflated for monetary gain.
Total agreement.
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In all seriousness, I'm not that convinced by Agile yet - I suspect it's "just another fad" that is going to get dropped in a couple of years when "working code" starts being "not-working code" and the maintenance headache of not having any idea how it works (and no documentation) starts to bite. A problem made worse by an attitude of "any warm body will do".
Pipe welding doesn't pay that well in the UK - the country is apparently full of Polish plumbers who can do it for a cup of tea and a fiver...
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Is that what Maciej is doing these days?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Griff, at some level I'd agree with you - we've all seen the new new thing come and go.
Back in my Science Systems days we sometimes used a formal methodology called Dynamic System Development Methodology (DSDM) where appropriate.
It was great for stuff like web pages and user interfaces. Not so great for database design and complex real-time stuff. It was agile before Agile ... another tool in our toolbox to use for the right widget.
I don't believe that agile works in all cases, in others it's a no brainer and doesn't need a fancy title. As soon as someone takes a common-sense idea, gives it a fancy newspeak title, publishes a book or two and commends it's universal use I'm turned off (what was that Universal something or other that was all the rage 10 years ago?!!!)
I used to belong to the Anarchy Society, but I didn't like the rules.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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The problem is that all these b***rds want something for nothing.
They *won't* pay the money for the ability, they *won't* work it out, they just want a formula to apply to save them having to think or analyse or do justice. They want to be the guy senior management pats on the head for saving x-amount of salary by hiring the cheapest.
And when the product isn't up to scratch, they're long gone.
Fortunately where I work they pay well, recruit quality and avoid all gimmicks.
As for Polish plumbers, I hired a local West Country man to hack my garden ready for the Winter. He quoted £35 to nuke the hedges back to the Stone Age, a ridiculously low quote. He turned up on Saturday and did a superb job in pouring rain. I paid him £45. Cheap at the price, the guy was a genuine grafter, and I don't miss the extra tenner.
Agile evangelists are for people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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