“Orange Jam Recipe”

Photo prompt by Мария Волк on Unsplash

Author’s Note: This is a Take Ten to Write story and has not been proofread for errors. If I feel inspired or if there’s interest in the story, I’ll post a revised, edited, and extended version at a later date. Happy reading!

Orange Jam Recipe

Ingredients:

• 150 oranges
• 150 lbs of sugar

Instructions:

1. Wash each orange carefully. Be sure to use a toothbrush to scrub off all possible dirt.
2. Peel each orange. Take off only 1 mm of peel at a time to retain the maximum amount of juice per orange.
3. Dissect each orange into its smallest, tear-shaped pieces.
4. Divide the pieces of each orange equally among 150 bowls to ensure an equal distribution of flavour across each batch of jam.
5. Squeeze each bowl, washing the juice squeezer (including hands, if no juice squeezer was available) between each bowl. Put the pulp back into the juice.
6. Add 1 cup of sugar to each bowl of squeezed orange.
7. Mix thoroughly.
8. Enjoy the orange jam on toast, bagels, pretzels, eggs, bacon, hamburgers, pizza, smoothies, water, and ketchup. (Use of the jam with any other food is inadvisable, as the flavour of the jam might be compromised.)

Final Comments: I didn’t really have an ideas about this one… So I just wrote another recipe!

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