So when you sadly buy a big bag of sour satsumas

[releasethehounds]

what on earth can you do with them (other than chuck them in the bin - I hate to waste food!)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA

can you try peeling them and soaking them in apple juice, like the canned ones, then having them with cream; or maybe peeling and heating them a touch and making a satsuma flan?

Might work!

You could try making a Satsuma Marmalade with them. I made some Mandatin Marmalade last year and it was very succesful.

Are they beyond sour or all right in small doses ??

We peel and segment and then freeze satsumas and clementines,generally when they look like they might go off, before they get eaten. DS loves them.

Make some satsuma liqueur - like limoncello but with oranges.

There's a Nigella recipe for clementine cake that should work with satsumas. You may need to add a little more sugar or a spoon of honey to counteract the sharpness of the satsuma.

I'm with you hounds- my DD loves anything orangey but they are all going past their best now.

Sorry to highjack but how about dry plums? I'm forever buying a bag of seemingly delicious juicy plums, thinking that they must be alright this time only to find they are as juicy as a bag of dust.

Ditto nectarines.

plums I would stew - preferably with a drop or several of cassis towards the end

Nectarines - tricky, they don't stew well - you could try poaching them and having them with custard or cream

I took a pack of sharp clementines back to Tescos once.
I only bought them because they were labelled as sweet but they definately weren't!
The girl on the customer services counter gave me my money back with no question and even said that she'd bought some herself and found them too sharp!!

I return them if they're labelled sweet & juicy and they're toe curlers.

thats just happened to me with tesco extra sweet satsumas. They were extra horrible and dry and sinewy IYGWIM > i wish i had kept my receipt as i would have taken them back to the veg manager. Also i bought some broccoli and it went yellow the next day and had to chuck that away. Why have they got such crap veggies.