Oranges, Candied

Ingredients

• seven or eight good-sized oranges
• three cupfuls of sugar
• one of water
• the juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Take seven or eight good-sized oranges, peel carefully, divide into quarters, and set aside.

2. 2

   Next boil together three cupfuls of sugar and one of water to a syrup; add the juice of one lemon when sufficiently cooked; then take up each section of orange separately with a fine knitting-needle and dig into the syrup; set aside on a large dish to cool and harden.

3. 3

   Should the syrup get cold before all are done, it may be set over the fire again for a few moments.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oranges, Candied. — Take seven or eight good-sized oranges, peel care- fully, divide into quarters, and set aside. Next boil together three cup- fuls of sugar and one of water to a syrup ; add the juice of one lemon

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