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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
to make jelly successfully, but by adding 
pectin juice of orange an ideal jelly may 
be made. A jelly made by this combi¬ 
nation will not have the rich red color of 
the strawberry jelly made without the 
pectin unless the pectin juice is heavy or 
the jelly is cooked slowly. 
It has been suggested that this pectin 
juice can be used as a basis for pie filling, 
and that it should find a ready market 
with the manufacturers of pie fillers. 
Confectioners can find frequent use for 
this substance in making candy and cake 
fillings. The club girls throughout the 
State have found a ready market for a 
jelly made from the orange pectin juice 
and sugar, with lemon juice added to 
give acidity, a vegetable coloring used to 
give a green color and flavored with mint. 
The peel of the grapefruit in marma¬ 
lade causes it to be bitter, objectionable to 
some but relished by others. By extract¬ 
ing the bitter from the peel, the pectin is 
also removed, making a marmalade 
lacking a jelly-like consistency, but by 
adding orange pectin juice a marmalade 
of the required consistency can be made. 
With the bottling of the orange juice 
and manufacture of an oil from the yel¬ 
low skin, cannot the white portion re¬ 
maining be made into pectin juice of com¬ 
mercial value; of value to the home¬ 
maker for use in her marmalades and 
her berry jellies; and of value to the 
manufacturers of candy, pie and marma¬ 
lades? 
ORANGE JUICE 
We have just started to bottle fruit 
juices. This year, immediately after the 
freeze, there were hundreds of bottles 
of the juice put up. A small capping 
machine has been put on the market this 
year, which will assist those who wish to 
bottle juices in small quantities. 
ORANGE VINEGAR 
Dr. Chase last year became interested 
in making vinegar from orange juices at 
the Citrus By-Products Laboratory in 
California. He made io hogsheads suc¬ 
cessfully, and sent samples of this orange 
juice vinegar to some of the leading 
wholesale merchants in the middle West. 
Immediately came orders from every firm 
to which samples were sent. One firm 
ordered a car load. If all the juice of our 
citrus culls was made into vinegar it 
should go far towards supplying Florida 
with vinegar. 
CRYSTALLIZED GRAPEFRUIT PEEL 
No product is made in the State by our 
girls and women with greater profit than 
the crystallized grapefruit peel. Even 
when sugar has been at the highest price 
this product has been sold at a splendid 
profit. It may be cut into various shapes, 
given various colors, or left the natural 
beautiful color; it is rolled in powdered 
or granulated sugar. One enterprising 
woman puts it on the market in a tin box, 
for which she receives 80 cents per pound. 
One of the County Agents writes that 
one of her co-operators crystallizes the 
peel and sells it for one dollar per pound. 
In Dade County, a number of the women 
crystallized whole grapefruits. This, filled 
with grapefruit crystallized sticks, sells at 
one dollar per pound. The Tourist Sec- 
