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This has no shreds of peel and is most delicious.
Required : A dozen Seville oranges. One pint of water.
Allow three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar to each pint of juice.
Cut the oranges in half, put them in a pan with the water and boil them for three-quarters of an hour, then strain off the juice and boil it quickly for eight to ten minutes. Next measure it, put it in a pan with sugar in the given proportion and boil it until a little of it " jellies " when allowed to get cold. It will probably take from twenty to thirty minutes.
Cost, from 1s. 4d.
 
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