Kumquat Sauce

Kumquats have a unique distinction among citrus fruits in that you eat the pleasant-tasting sweet peel and discard the fruit pulp. Peeling a kumquat and saving the flesh would be the equivalent of the classic kitchen joke where the young apprentice, after being told to strain the stock, returned to the chef proudly holding a bowl full of bones and vegetables! The kumquat peel produces an intense and vibrant orange color; it makes regular orange sauce look quite pale by comparison.