282636 Mon Jan 23 17:13:36 -0800 2006 7 31 Home Cooking 0 1506729 So, I bought a Seville orange this weekend trying to defy the conventional wisdom that you can't eat them straight ... you can't eat them straight. Even marinating them in apricot brandy which works nice with regular oranges doesn't help in this case. Not being someone to make marmelade, the conventional use of Seville oranges, I looked around for some simple recipes for them. Haven't tried the harlot recipe yet, but it looks interesting enough that I plan to buy a few more oranges this week-end to try it out. It's from a Medieval cookbook, but one updated version is: 4 eggs 1 Seville orange 1 lemon 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon olive oil or melted butter salt Juice the oranges and the lemon. Beat the eggs, add the juice, the sugar, and salt to taste, and cook the omelette in olive oil or melted butter. Serve warm. I guess the orange in my handle is getting to me. Anyway this recipe originally came from Johannes Bockenheim a fifteenth century chef who cooked for Pope Martin V. He compiled a cookbook for all occasions like recipes to be prepared for specific visiting nationalities or social groups. What the pope was doing at a prostitute dinner, I don't want to know. Here's more info with links to the original recipe. http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/000107.html Some other simple Seville orange recipes I found that are not marmelade: Smoking Bishop - The reformed Scrooge invited Bob Cratchit out for this warm drink, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=890045 Red onions with Seville orange and Marsala http://www.veg-book.co.uk/recipes/redonionseville.html CADIZ FISH SOUP http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/fishsou2.htm Orange Tea Cake (scroll down) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1553300 Ok, it's not Seville oranges, but i stumbled across this pretty blood orange salad. Click on the link just above the picture - Insalata D’arancia Link: http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/2005/03/shopping_list_b.html Mon Jan 23 17:13:36 -0800 2006 0 rworange 1 1506747 I hope you are in NYC and that you bought the orange here - if so, where? I am constantly on the lookout for them as my sour-food-maniac husband DOES like to eat them raw. As a change from lemons... Mon Jan 23 17:42:15 -0800 2006 1506729 0 Susan Marme 2 1506794 Sorry, I'm in SF and bought them from DeSilva at the Alemany Farmers market on Saturday. They were just so lovely looking I couldn't resist even though I knew they were not really eating oranges. Mon Jan 23 20:16:31 -0800 2006 1506747 0 rworange 2 1506857 In New York, you can find Seville oranges in the produce section of nearly any Hispanic market, labelled "Naranja agria". They are very seedy and often the peel doesn't look so nice, but the juice and zest is lovely. I wouldn't eat the fruit raw, but I love using the juice in fish and meat recipes. Tue Jan 24 08:27:15 -0800 2006 1506747 0 plum 2 1507040 The easiest time to find sour oranges is before Christmas. They are an important component in mojo, which is used to marinate "lechón" (roast pork) a typical cuban Christmas dish. Tue Jan 24 20:57:40 -0800 2006 1506747 0 butterfly 1 1506749 One other use: sour orange juice makes incredible orange curd. Just substitute it for lemon juice in a lemon curd recipe. (My favorite is Rose Levy Beranbaum's -- all yolks, not too much butter, perfectly pure flavor.) Unbelievably delicious. But don't use the zest -- way too bitter. Either skip it, zest a sweet orange (too fussy for me), or add a few drops of Boyajian orange oil. Eat straight from the spoon, make into ice cream, put in tartlets -- mmm. (And if you're feeling thrifty, use the rinds to make marmalade.) Mon Jan 23 17:42:46 -0800 2006 1506729 0 MichaelB 1 1506775 Maybe it should be renamed omelette for Mary Magdalene? Mon Jan 23 18:46:15 -0800 2006 1506729 0 suzannapilaf 1 1506777 Here's a recipe for Boeuf à l’orange, which uses a couple of Seville oranges. Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NE4TXN3O4QD0LQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/wine/2006/01/21/edtom21.xml&sSheet=/wine/2006/01/21/ixedmain.html Mon Jan 23 19:04:38 -0800 2006 1506729 0 Lat K