Tangerine Oranges

Instructions

1. This entry is a note on choosing the fruit rather than a method of preparing it.
2. Tangerine oranges are remarkably sweet and delicate when in their perfection, though the rinds have a most peculiar, and to many tastes not a very agreeable, flavour.
3. Expect them late: they come later into the market than the more common varieties of the orange, and disappear from it sooner. Their cost is somewhat higher than that of the Malta and St. Michael oranges.
4. Serve them as a very refined salad, or as an ornamental rice-crust dish.
5. Acton on a related fruit: there is another species of this fruit known commonly as the blood-orange, which has many admirers, but which she should not say is greatly superior to the more abundant kinds usually served at our tables.