18. - Baked Oranges for Colds.

Bake 1 unpeeled, sour orange in a moderate oven twenty minutes. When done open at one end and remove the pulp; sweeten it with sugar or molasses and take for hoarseness or cold on the lungs.

19.-Volusia Cake

Beat 1 cupful of butter to a cream with 2 cupfuls of sugar; add 7 eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; add the juice and the grated peel of 1/2 an orange and 3 cupfuls of flour in which 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder has been sifted. Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven for forty minutes.

20.-Tongue Braised in Orange Sauce

Boil a fresh beef tongue one and a half hours and remove the skin. Line the bottom of a braising pan with bacon, add 1 sour orange sliced without peeling and 1 cupful each of sliced turnips, onions and carrots; put in the tongue, add the liquor in which it was first boiled and water enough to cover, 1 teaspoonful of salt and 1/2 teaspoonful of whole black peppers. Cook in oven or by very slow heat for three hours longer; strain the liquor, thicken with corn-starch and add to the sauce 1/4 cupful of fresh orange dice.

21.-Orange-peel Paste

Pare the yellow rind as thinly as possible from 12 oranges, boil until very tender in water to cover; drain thoroughly and pound in a mortar, adding powdered sugar a little at a lime until the paste will not take more without crumbling. Roll out one-fourth inch thick, cut out small round or fancy wafers and dry in a very slow oven.

22.-Lady Pudding

To 1/4 pound of lady-finger crumbs add 2 ounces of sugar, the grated rind of 2 oranges and the juice of 3 ; beat the yolks of 3 eggs and the white of 1 and add to the first mixture; when well mixed add 1/2 cupful of thin cream and bake with or without a lining of puff-paste.

23.-Parsons Ice Cream

Beat the yolks of 8 eggs, add 12 ounces of powdered sugar, 3 cupfuls of rich, sweet cream, the juice of 6 oranges and the grated peel of 2. Stir in a double boiler until it begins to thicken, then strain, cool and freeze.

24. - Winter Salad

Dice the pulp of 4 juicy, sweet oranges; blanch and dry 1 cupful of English walnut meats, mix with the oranges and let stand one hour. Serve on lettuce leaves with the following : Butter Salad Dressing : Beat 1 egg and stir it into 2 tablespoonfuls of butter which has been softened but not melted; add 3 tablespoonfuls of orange juice and a little grated rind, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, 1/2 cupful of sweet cream and, if procurable, 1 tablespoonful of young orange leaves minced very fine.