River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-05
HOW mARMALApE is MADE.
Interesting Series OF Hands and Machines
Through Which the Oranges Go.

/ interesting series OF Hands and Machines
Through Which the Oranges Go.
The London makers import their own
bitter oranges direct from Seville and
into their factory are brought enough
oranges to build an edifice as big as st.
pauls. Let US follow the course of an
orange.
1t ripened by the river banks.
Where. mask and moonlight aiding
Don Bias and Juan play their pranks,
Dark donuas serenading.
it is unrolled from its paper capsule
and carefully inspected to see that it is
perfectly sound. 1t is then put in
box, which finds its way to another de-
partment, where the small black spot
is removed. IL perfectly clean il is
dropped into one basket; If dirty, into
another, which goes into new de-
partment to be washed. 1t then
comes under the care OF girl,
whose sole occupation is to cut
it in half and drop il in a
basket, which is placed before a woman
who sits in front of a little wooden
cupboard, in which spins at the rate of
one thousand five hundred revolutions
minute, a wooden rose. A large red
arm, on which is tattooed ~ Love A.
r., is put out, the half orange is placed
against the rose, and in a second the
pulp and juice have disappeared, and
nothing but clean cap of peel remains
in the operators hand. This is put in
a basket with hundreds of others.
They are folded in tours, so as to re-
semble a half-blown india-rubber ball.
and thrust into a hopper in another
machine, where sharp circular knives
spin around and cut them into innumer-
able rings, which drop into a drawer
beneath. While this is going on the
pulp and juice have been put into an
other machine which throws off the pips
and pulp and sends the boiled Juice into
a large vat The thin slit rings of peel
are then steam boiled in tubs and added
with sugar to the sirup, which is
wheeled off to the boiling room, and in
some seven minutes ton and half of
marinalade is being emptied by strong
arms and big cans into thousands of
pots. tumblers, teapots, custard glasses.
butter dishes, jelly molds and some
fifty other fancy forms in which the
middle-class housekeeper likes to be
served. These are fitted into trays,
which are piled on lorries and are sent
by lift to the next floor, where they are
finished-that is to say. have the little
Handicapped heading put in the neck,
the vegetable parchment cover tied
round the top and the labels stuck on.
When all this has been done by sew
eral hands, any spare marmalade
which has been spilled is washed off
the jars, and they are wrapped and
sealed in colors and sent away across
the bridge on trolleys to be packed in
the warehouse. 1t is rather interest
ing, though little late, to note that
so perfect is the system that at the
very time a grateful of oranges is be-
ing unpacl1ed the jars, which will con-
tain the marmalade they make are be-
ing sorted out, W ashed, dried and dis
patched on trays and trolleys through
various departments, so as to meet
the malmalade at certain point as
soon as II is boiled. This is the history
of how an orange becomes a spoonful
of marmalade.- James Gazette.