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Show 660 ORANGE. the pulp of the pippins well broken, and a poundof sugar. Boil them a quarter of an hour, then put theminto a pot andsqueeze in two spoonfulsof the juice of either orange or lemon, accord. ing to the kind of tart. Put puff paste, verythin, into shallow patty-pans. Take a feather, or brush, and rub themover with melted butter, sift double refined sugar over them, whichwill form a pretty iceing, and put them inthe oven, Orance Tarts. Grate a little of the outside of a Seville orange, squeeze the juice into a dish, put the peel into water, and changeit often for four days. Then put theminto a saucepan ofboiling water on the fire. Change the water twice to take out the bitterness, and when tender, wipe, and beat themfine in a mortar. Boil their weight in doublerefined sugar into a syrup, ,and skimit. Then put in the pulp, and boil all together till clear. When cold, put it into the tarts, squeeze in the juice, and bake them in a quick oven. Conserve of oranges makes goodtarts. LEMON. CITRUS MEDICA. Oranee Purrs. Pare off the rinds from Seville oranges, then rub them with salt: let themlie twenty-four hours in water; boil themin four changes of water, make the first salt; drain, and beat them to a pulp: bruise in the pieces of all that you have pared, make it Class XVII. Polyadelphia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Spec. Car. very sweet with loaf sugar, and boil it till thick ; let it stand till cold, and then put it into the paste. Order IIT. Icosandria. Sameas the preceding. Petioles linear. +e DESCRIPTION. Tins evergreen resembles the orange, to which it is closely allied, but the leaves. are commonlylarger, slightly indented at the edges, andthe footstalk without having the remarkable appendage of the other. The flowers are very like the other, but havea purplish tinge on the outer side of the petals. Thefruit Is less round, and has a prominent apex. Mmto nine cells, The fruit is ide HISTORY. This t ree Is a native of the upperparts of Asia, from whence it was we brought , he: to Greece, and afterwards : aly *. * by Paladius to Italy — dein Paladit frequens, apud Medos lligentis citrus ; A Etenim dili : et Pérsas imprimis . a ihn oe sentia in Taliam translata fuit : postea in Hispania in usum devenit, ut Nemora et camnoc . : re Fa et campos occupari t,—Bauh. Pin, p. 435. |