Dried Whole Green Oranges

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When the older crop starts to regreen and the newer one start starts turning orange, telling them apart is a serious challenge.

I suspect that this was the Georgian equivalent of that common modern recipe for making use of green tomatoes at the end of a cold, sunless English summer - the ubiquitous green tomato chutney. But green oranges give sweet orange juice and, if the people of Sierra Leone can remain so optimistic, so can Dr Em. Valencias contain seeds and have a balanced tangy-sweet flavor that make them great juicing oranges. The nuts were collected before the hard shell formed and were processed in a similar way to the green oranges. This would indicate that Seville oranges had a longer season back in the eighteenth century than they apparently do now.Even after they degreen from the cold, growers often leave Valencias on the tree for another six months. I will post a photograph of the finished article in a future article about the wider issue of preserved and candied citrus peels. Please be aware there are some items (heavier/larger items) we cannot deliver to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scottish Highlands and Islands and Channel Islands.

I have said that the Seville orange season nowadays occupies a brief window in January and February. It is a receipt for the sale of lemons, Cheanay oranges (sic), Sivill oranges (sic) and isinglass to Sir Peter Warburton, the owner of Arley Hall, by the Manchester grocer Mrs Elizabeth Raffald.In some upland towns like Ronda, where the season is somewhat later, there were trees which were still heavily laden. Of course anybody could be stable when they’d had an easy life like mine: never abused or raped, no major bereavements, no ghastly relationship breakdowns, and even my parents were still married to each other. So how can the eighteenth century invoiced receipt below, which I came across in the archives of Arley Hall in Cheshire, be explained?