Name: To Preserve Oranges Carved
Ingredients: Seville oranges; salt; water

To Preserve Oranges Carved

Ingredients

Seville oranges
salt
water

Directions

Select the largest and finest Seville oranges.
Cut the rind in any desired shape with a penknife and carefully remove the peel.
Make a small hole at the stalk end, about the size of a sixpence, and remove all the pulp without breaking the orange.
Soak the oranges in saltwater for two days, changing the water each day.
Boil the oranges in a large quantity of water to remove any remaining bitterness.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.