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.
Boil 1 cupful of water, 2 ounces of butter, 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar and the grated rind of 1/2 an orange for ten minutes; add 5 ounces of flour and stir until smooth, then remove from the fire and add 5 eggs, 1 at a time. Roll out very thin, cut in rounds and put together in pairs with a filling of stiff orange marmalade ; pinch the edges together and fry in deep fat until brown.
Squeeze the juice from 12 large blood oranges ; boil the peels of 12 yellow oranges in plenty of water until a straw will pierce them, drain, and when cool enough to handle scrape out all the pith, leaving the yellow outside which is to be cut in shreds with scissors. Weigh the juice and add an equal weight of sugar, and the shredded peel; boil for two hours and put in glasses.
Scald oysters in their own liquor, arrange them on buttered toast and cover with unsweetened orange sauce.



Boil 1/3 cupful of sugar in 1/6 cupful of water to a rich syrup and add to 2 cupfuls of mashed chestnuts; flavor with vanilla, add a few grains of salt and the yolks of 2 eggs. When cool shape into croquettes, roll in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again and fry in deep fat. Orange Sauce : Beat the yolks of 2 eggs with 1/2 cupful of sugar, add the juice of 1 large orange and stir over hot water until thick, then pour into the beaten whites of 2 eggs and use at once.
Weigh 50 Mandarin oranges and boil them until tender in three changes of water. Cool enough to handle, cut a circle at the stem end of each orange and remove the seeds but not the pulp. Drain the oranges and add to them an equal weight of sugar and to each pound of sugar, add 1 cupful of strained orange juice. Boil the oranges slowly in this syrup for forty minutes, then take them out and reduce the syrup until it almost candies; pour over the oranges in glasses and seal.



Cream 1 cupful of butter, add 1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar, the beaten yolks of 3 eggs, the juice and the grated rind of 1/2 an orange, 1 level teaspoonful of soda dissolved in 3 tablespoon-fuls of sour milk, the beaten whites of 3 eggs and 3 1/2 cupfuls of flour. Drop in spoonfuls on a buttered tin ; bake in a moderate oven.
Chop 1 pickled orange very fine with 1 cupful of blanched almonds 1 spread between slices of buttered bread.
 
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