Of course you did! I suppose they're ignored for export partly because they don't look seductive - unwaxed, smallish, a little dusty maybe. Fabulous flavour. Did you come across their polar opposite, naranjas de caña - sugarcane oranges? Sweetness without any sourness - so dull nobody bothers to pick 'em. The trees in the Patio de los Naranjas under the Giralda in Seville are de cañas - maybe deliberately, as they're left on trees.
Blessings on ye who can easily obtain Seville or bitter or sour oranges, very hard to come by in these northeastern but still united States. They were a feature of the courtyard of the palazzo where I lived in Rome many years, and ignored by the other denizens while I stole them and made, of course, marmalade!
Of course you did! I suppose they're ignored for export partly because they don't look seductive - unwaxed, smallish, a little dusty maybe. Fabulous flavour. Did you come across their polar opposite, naranjas de caña - sugarcane oranges? Sweetness without any sourness - so dull nobody bothers to pick 'em. The trees in the Patio de los Naranjas under the Giralda in Seville are de cañas - maybe deliberately, as they're left on trees.
Blessings on ye who can easily obtain Seville or bitter or sour oranges, very hard to come by in these northeastern but still united States. They were a feature of the courtyard of the palazzo where I lived in Rome many years, and ignored by the other denizens while I stole them and made, of course, marmalade!