538 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
for the China tea, being made by pressing out the Orange juice, 
and adding it when strained through muslin, to an equal 
quantity of boiling water, with sugar. Orange butter was a 
former confection, as told of in the Closet of Rarities (1706). 
It is made, in the Dutch way, as follows: ‘“‘ Take of new cream 
a gallon, beat this up to a thickness; then add four ounces of 
Orange-flower water, with the same quantity of red wine; and 
being thus become of the thickness of butter, it retains both the 
colour, and scent of an orange.” In former English times it 
was a custom at dessert to squeeze the Orange juice into a 
wineglass, and so drink it. ‘‘ Dr. Samuel Johnson would suffer 
his next neighbour at table to squeeze the juice of China Oranges 
into his wineglass after dinner, else perchance, because the good 
man had neither straight sight, nor steady nerves, the juice 
would have run aside, and trickled into the Doctor’s capacious 
shoes.”” In his day a perfumed snuff was made, known as 
“Orangery.” “Oh, lord! Sir! you must never sneeze: ‘tis 
as unbecoming after Orangery as grace after meat.” Parkinson 
relates, in his Herbal: ‘‘ That the seeds (pips) of the Orange, 
being set into the ground in the spring-time, will quickly grow 
up; and when they are a finger’s length high, being pluck’t 
up, and put among sallets, will give them a marvellous fine 
spicy aromatick taste which is very acceptable.” Spenser, and 
Milton, tell of the Orange as “the veritable golden apple presented 
by Jupiter to Juno on the day of their nuptials”’-; hence has 
perhaps arisen its more modern association with marriage rites. 
The delicious periumes of neroli and napha, exhaled by the 
flowers, are cordial and soothing: therefore appropriate for the 
bride ; whilst the bridegroom is blithely gay “ with joy in his 
heart, and a gardenia in his button hole. ” Virgil in classic 
times wrote about the Aureum malum: “ Aurea mala decem 
mist, cras altera mittam.” At Paraguay in South America there 
are forests of Orange trees, the same region being full of small 
establishments for extracting the Orange essence, which the 
natives regard as a valuable curative ointment; they apply it 
to wounds, and cuts, declaring that it has such healing qualities 
that it permeates every part of the affected flesh, restoring 
the injured structures very quickly. 
When Alice (in Wonderland) ‘‘ went for miles and miles down 
the rabbit’s dark hole, she passed cupboards, and book-shelves 
during her long fall, and from one of the latter she took a 
