Oranges are orange-colored fist-sized citrus fruits. Use this tag for questions about selecting, identifying, storing, preparing, replacing or cooking with oranges as an ingredient. Questions about dishes which include oranges, but are not focused on oranges, should not use this tag.
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How can I tell when the wax has been removed from citrus fruit?
This evening I tried different ways (taken from other cooking forums) of removing the wax coating from lemons.
Pouring boiling water over
In a bowl with (initially) boiling water for five minutes
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How to serve oranges so it is easy for guests to enjoy them?
Usually I just cut them into 6 pieces (see image), but it's kind of messy to eat them this way.
Is there a better way?
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How much juice can you get from an orange?
I wanted to make fresh orange juice using a squeezer and wanted to know how many oranges it takes to make an 8oz glass of juice?
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What's the black thing at the bottom of navel oranges?
Sometimes I'll cut into a navel orange and notice something black inside which originates at the bottom of the orange, where the navel is. What is it?
I have seen it get pretty far into the fruit ...
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How can I add a strong orange flavor to my dishes?
I love the taste of oranges, and I'm looking for ways to introduce that flavor into some of my cooking.
I've tried adding orange juice and pieces of orange when frying or baking, but I find that ...
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How can I make orange caramel sauce?
I'm planning to make a chocolate orange cake and fancied making an orange caramel sauce to go with it.
My plan is to make a caramel sauce by heating up butter and sugar in a pan , stirring all the ...
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What's an easy to use juicer that juices oranges as well as other fruit?
I would like to buy a juicer for making fruit juice, including orange juice.
But the juicers that I've seen fall into one of two categories:
Work for all fruits, but you have to peel oranges.
Work ...
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How well do frozen oranges peel after frozen?
I was wondering if freezing an orange would make it easier to peal and remove most/all the pith.
I want to make an orange smoothie, so having it frozen would be a good thing, but I have no idea if it ...
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Can you make orange juice with a blender?
I have a box full of clementines. Can I make orange juice in a blender?
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How to substitute oranges in a mango mousse recipe?
I'm looking for a recipe for orange mousse without eggs, but hopefully with gelatine. I've tried to search for some recipes on google but didn't really find anything too good. I have a very delicious ...
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Seville oranges for marmalade - how important is freshness?
We're currently (in January) in the brief season for seville oranges which means it's marmalade making time.
I acquired some sevilles as soon as they appeared in the shops here a week ago. However ...
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Why do fresh mandarin oranges get very bitter when baked?
Why do fresh mandarin oranges get very bitter when baked?
What compound in mandarin oranges turns bitter when heated?
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Clementine ice cream
I made this clementine cake a while back, and very much appreciated the fact that it uses the entire fruit. I found a good deal on clementines today, and was thinking of trying to do something similar ...
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Is there a use for the rind after making Citrus Sugar?
I have made Citrus Sugar and am now separating the lemon (and/or orange) rind from the sugar. Now I am wondering is there any use for the leftover citrus rind?
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Orange sauce for goose
I've been to this wonderful Chinese place where they served goose in orange sauce/gravy.
I've been looking for a recipe for it all over the Internet, but everything I found looked pretty far from it.
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How to preserve home made orange juice [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to keep fresh-squeezed fruit juice?
I love orange juice and I make it using blender. Yesterday I made juice of around 50 oranges. At the end of the day I still had ...
