Winter Day Gift

Oranges from our orange tree.

Our little orange tree is loaded with golden oranges. Just what we need this time of year with cold, covid and snow.  Vitamin C on a tree.  Thank you little tree for doing your best to keep us well.

Orange Tree Calamondin Citrofortunella microcarpa
Uses:
– excellent for preserves, jam and marmalade
– dried peel zest
– used to flavour foods and drinks
– fruit frozen whole and used as ice cubes in beverages
– juice makes a flavourful drink similar to lemonade,
– used to season fish, fowl, and pork and spritzed on fish prior
  to cooking eliminates the fishy smell.
– juice taken orally as a cough medicine with green tea
and to make gelatine salads or desserts, custard pie or chiffon pie.
– liqueur can be made from the whole fruits with vodka and sugar.
– Kuah asang (“sour soup”) clear fish broth made with calamondin juice.
– medicinally rubbed on insect bites to relieve itching and reduce irritation
-a natural anti-inflammatory
– for constipation, the juice is warmed and diluted with water.
– bleaches freckles, aids with acne
– antidote for poison,
– combined with pepper to help expel phlegm.
– often used in skin and hair care products.

Tree Means: generosity.