American Southern

Preserved Oranges

Name: Preserved Oranges
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 1 each oranges; 0.75 lb sugar

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 31. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

20 minPrep Time

60 minCook Time

16Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

1 each oranges
3/4 lb sugar

Instructions

1
Boil the oranges till you can run a straw through the skin.
2
Clarify 3-4ths of a lb of sugar for each lb of fruit.
3
Take the oranges from the water, and pour the hot syrup on them.
4
Let them stand one night; next day boil them until the syrup is thick and clear.

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