Orange Snow-Balls

Instructions

1. Take out the unhusked grains, and wash well half a pound of rice; put it into plenty of water, and boil it rather quickly for ten minutes; drain and let it cool.
2. Pare four large, or five small oranges, and clear from them entirely the thick white inner skin.
3. Spread the rice, in as many equal portions as there are oranges, upon some pudding or dumpling cloths; tie the fruit separately in these, and boil the snow-balls for an hour and a half.
4. Turn them carefully on to a dish, and strew plenty of sifted sugar over them.
5. The oranges carefully pared may be enclosed in a thin paste and boiled for the same time.
6. Proportions: Rice, 8 oz.; China oranges, 5: 1-1/2 hour.