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Preserved Seville Orange

Peel the yellow rind from the fruit then halve crosswise and seed. Sprinkle the halves thickly with salt and boil fruit in soda water for at least fifteen minutes (a heaping teaspoon of soda to each quart of water). Drain and pour over the oranges fresh hot water and repeat. If the rind is not soft boil it until it is. Make a syrup of a pint of water to a pound of sugar (a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit) and when thickening well add the fruit, cooking it till translucent. Remove oranges, place in hot jars, and when syrup has cooked down till quite thick pour over the fruit while the syrup is at boiling point, filling jars pretty full. Seal well.