Oranges, to Preserve, Carved

Ingredients

• 4 dozens of the roughest and largest Seville oranges
• a large saucepan of fresh water
• a thick syrup
• tie them down with a bladder

Method

1. 1

   Cut the rinds of the oranges in various forms, soak in salt and water for three days, then boil in fresh water without covering.

2. 2

   Boil in thin syrup for five days, then jar and cover with brandy papers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 355. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 dozens of the roughest and largest Seville oranges ; pare very thin; put them into a tub, and pour the liquor on boiling hot ; and when cold enough, add three or four spoonfuls of good yeast, with the juice of the oranges, and % oz, of cochineal, beaten fine, and boiled in a pint of wine ; stir all together. Ferment four days; put into the casks, and in six weeks bottle for use. Orange Wine. — To five gallons ,of spring-water, put fifteen pounds of loaf sugar, and the whites of three eggs, well beaten ; let it boil for a quarter of an hour, and as the scum rises, take it off; when cold, add the juice of sixty Seville oranges and five lemons; pare 10 oranges and 5 lemons as thin as possible ; put them on thread, and sus- pend them in the barrel for two months ; then take them out, and put in a pound of loaf sugar, and bung it up. ORANGES, to Preserve, Carved. — Take the best Seville oranges ; cut the rinds with a penknife in various forms ; draw out part of the peel as you cut them, and put them into salt and water, to stand three days to take out the bitter ; then boil them in a large saucepan of fresh water, with sals in it, but do not cover them, or their OKA 285 OX colour will be injured; take out, and boil them ten minutes in a thin syrup, for five days successively; put into a deep jar, to stand two months, and then make a thick syrup, and just give them a boil in it ; let them stand till the next day ; then jar them, and cover with brandy papers; tie them down with a bladder

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