So I rubbed it off with baking soda and soaked it in hot water for over an hour before making it.

When I make citron tea, I cut the citron in half and squeeze it into a suitable bowl to squeeze the citron soup. This makes it easy to pick out seeds and prevents the wasteful citron juice from getting on the cutting board. It would be easier to pick out citron seeds if you put a sieve on a bowl and squeeze out citron juice.

Sift the citron

Put citron in a wide container and sprinkle sugar.

If you sprinkle sugar on it and leave it covered, the sugar melts and forms a soup. At that time, they make citron tea by putting citron in a hot sterilized glass bottle.

Whip the soft room temperature butter and whisk the sugar a little bit.

Add eggs one at a time and whip it

Add the sifted flour and baking powder and mix lightly.

Add milk

Chop the sugar-boiled citron into small pieces

Put it in the dough and mix it lightly with a rubber spatula to make the dough. For yuja chopping, you can think of it as mixing two yuja with 1/3 cup of sugar.

In a muffin cup, scoop 1+1/2 scoops of dough with ice cream scoop and decorate it with citron. While baking, citron became caramelized and chewed chewy and delicious. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

Doesn't it look like it's going to smell? Try the fragrant citron muffin with citron tea. I feel like I'm going to blow away a cold just by looking at the picture. Make sure to make yuja muffin with soft cake flesh and fragrant yuja.