Recipe - Tangerines With Honey-Lime Syrup

3 Limes
3 cup Water
1 cup Sugar
12 Tangerines, may substitute
Clementines or Oranges
6 tablespoon Rum, dark
3 tablespoon Honey
Julienned Lime zest for gar
nish

Using vegetable peeler, cut lime zest (colored part of peel) from limes.
Combine with the water and sugar in small saucepan. Heat to boiling, then
boil 10 minutes. Remove syrup from heat. Cut peel and white pith from
tangerines. Place tangerines in shallow serving bowl. Squeeze juice from
limes and mix with rum and honey. Pour into lime syrup and stir to blend.
Pour syrup over tangerines. Refirigerate covered, turning tangerines
occasionally, at least 8 hours. To serve, remove strips of lime zest and
garnish with julienned lime zest