Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-22 | Page 13 | Uses of Orange Peel

USES OF ORANGE PEEL. OHANGI'j skins (generally considered consid-ered utterly useless) can bo used in two ways that will give much pleasure. Any girl who want to have something u little out of the common for a luncheon party or who wants to make a very small gift, but one that shows some real uork her own, can accomplish either object by making candled orange peel. :sol by buying it at tho confectioner , where plenty of It is sold, but by doing it herself. The candied orange peel Is made, at homo and uwl while fresh is o far superior to that one can buy that It sems like quite another thiDg. It can be made of Uio skJn of an orange that nas been peeled and used In any way, I but rather a smooth skin should be chcwenl and it must be used before it becomes at all hard and drj. Tho first thing to do is to scrape off with t knife as much as possible, of the white Inner tkin. Keep on scraping until the skin is quite thin and tho back thows (he yellow. Then cut the pieces of skin into strips one quarter ; of un inch wide, and from ono and a ' half to two inches long. .Now comes tho cooking, which is done ; in thn following manner In a small i,aueepau full of wuter, dissolve three 1 tablcspoonfuls of .sugar and put in yourl ' strips of orange peel. Boil Uiem until the : water boiiu u.wny, leaving a thick syrup. During the latter purt of this process it I must b carefully watched and stirred to tj prevent burning. Xext take the peel from t the. xaucupau and roll it in powdered su-. su-. gar; then put the pieces on plates to dry, jnot piled up, but in single layers. Tho 'orange peel is best ou the first or second y day after it is made and it must be used within a week or it will grow too hard. 1 A dainty box filled with this orange peel - makes a very attractive gift or, if one Is . sendiug some rcnlly handsome box (a eil- vor one or xin enamel or carved one), an L added pleasure will be given by filling r iL with caudied orange jieel made by the r viver.