This section is from the book "Orange Recipes", by George W. Jacobs. Also available from Amazon: 365 Orange Recipes: An Orange Recipe for Every Day of the Year.
To 2 cupfuls of sugar, add 1/2 cupful of orange juice and the grated rind of 1 orange. Bring to a boil and add 1/2 cupful of grated cocoanut. Let it boil without stirring until a drop put in cold water will form a soft ball. Take from the fire and set in a cool place until nearly cold; then beat until it is thick, pour into a buttered dish and cut in squares.



Beat the yolks of 3 eggs with 1 1/2, cupfuls of sugar; add 1/2 cupful of orange juice, 1 teaspoonful of grated orange rind, 1 salt-spoonful of salt, 1 cupful of chopped apples, 1 cupful of bread crumbs, 1/2 cupful of sultana raisins, 1/2 cupful of chopped preserved orange peel, and the whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff. Boil in a buttered mould for three hours or bake for two hours. Serve with hard sauce.
Whip 1 pint of thick cream, stir in carefully 1 cupful of orange marmalade and add sugar if required. Put in a mould and pack in ice and salt for three hours.
Blanch 1/2 pound of almonds and beat in a mortar with orange-flower water, 1/2 pound of powdered sugar and 1 pound of butter. Beat the yolks of 10 eggs and the whites of 4; pound in a mortar 2 candied oranges and 1 fresh one with the bitterness boiled out. When these are soft mix all the ingredients and bake in small moulds.



Cut off the top of 1 large pineapple and remove the pulp; cut the pulp from 4 oranges and add to the pineapple, sweeten to taste, put in a glass fruit jar and bury in ice and salt for two hours. Have the pineapple shell thoroughly chilled and put the fruit in it just before serving.
Steep the grated rind of 1 orange in 1 pint of hot cream for one hour, strain and add 1 heaping teaspoonful of corn-starch mixed with 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Boil until smooth and when cold pour into a dish lined with sponge cake steeped in orange juice.
Boil artichokes for a half hour in salted water; drain and serve hot or cold with Fruit Mayonnaise. (See June 4.)



 
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