Fine Jelly of Seville Oranges

Ingredients

• Seville oranges, 18
• water, 1 pint
• 14 ounces of highly refined sugar

Method

1. 1

   Take off the rinds in quarters from 10 oranges, free them from their tough white skin, and cut into thick slices.

2. 2

   Put them with all the pips into the water.

3. 3

   Halve the remaining fruit without paring, squeeze the juice and pips (not the pulp) into the sliced oranges.

4. 4

   Heat and boil gently for 20 to 30 minutes, then strain the juice without pressure through muslin.

5. 5

   Weigh and boil quickly for 5 minutes; for each pound, stir in 14 ounces of sugar until dissolved, then continue boiling until it jellies easily and is transparent.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 462. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FINE JELLY OF SEVILLE ORANGES. (Author's Original Receipt .) Although we have appropriated thi^ receipt to another woik, vrd cannot refrain from inserting it here as well, so delicious to our taste is the jelly which we have had made by it. For eighteen full- sized oranges allow a pint and a half of water. Take off the rinds in quarters from ten of them, and then free them entirely from their tough white skin, and with a sharp knife cut them into rather thick slices, and put them with all the pips into the water. Hal ye the remainder of the fruit without paring it, and squeeze the juice and pips, but not the pulp , to the sliced oranges; and place them by the fire in an enamelled stewpan which they will not more than two- thirds fill. Heat and boil them gently between twenty and thirty minutes, then strain the juice closely from them without pressure, through a large square of muslin folded in four, or, if more con- venient, pass it first through a very thin and delicately clean cloth, and afterwards through the folded muslin. Weigh and boil it quickly for five minutes ; then for each pound stir gradually to it fourteen ounces of highly refined sugar, broken small or roughly nowdered ; and when it is quite dissolved, continue the boiling for a few minutes longer, when the preserve will jelly easily and firmly, and be pale and beautifully transparent, and most agreeable in flavour, Seville oranges, 18

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