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Oranges Filled with Jelly

When a large variety of dishes is required, orange-skins are sometimes emptied entirely of the fruit, cut out in the shape of baskets, and filled with bright clear jelly of different colours. They look pretty; very great care and a sharp knife, however, are required to make them. The handle of the basket should be cut across the stalk-end of the fruit, and should be fully half an inch wide. The basket-part should take up half of the orange. The best way to make these baskets is to mark out their shape first without piercing the fruit, then take away the quarters of the rind which will not be required, and pass the flat part of a tea-spoon carefully under the handle to separate it from the fruit, which must then be pressed out through the empty spaces. The jelly should be nearly cold before it is put into the skins. Probable cost, oranges, 1d. each. (See JELLY IN ORANGE SKINS.)