CidahMastah
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It's possible that I missed this in the 50 pages of this thread, but here's my question:
I can't find blood oranges at this time of year. I read several posts where people substituted clementines or naval oranges, but these are a lot sweeter than blood oranges and lack that tartness. Any opinions on 1 red grapefruit with 4 naval oranges?
Blood oranges that I have had aren't tart at all, in fact I would say they are sweeter than a typical orange in my experience. You get the tartness/bitter from the zesting (from either orange).
That said, you could certainly bring grapefruit to the party (I almost considered doing that as well). I would go with ruby red, but I would be a little hesitant to zest them. The zest on grapefruit is very very bitter. Go easy on the GF zest or just stick to using the orange zest. (IMO)
Oh yeah check out some pictures I put up of the BOH - posted them to the wrong link and Yooper tossed them over here - see post 519