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Drying oranges for decorations

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  • zippychick
    zippychick Posts: 9,364 Forumite
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    I got a bag for 99p! Going to make some for mum and brother too :D
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  • Bitsy_Beans
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    Can I be really thick and ask if you have to make new ones each year? Or do you recycle ones you've made previously :o
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  • zippychick
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    Ha ha i wondered the same.! I would guess they would keep (?:confused:) but may not smell. Hopefully someone smarter than me will be along soon with the answer :D

    For all they cost, I'm ok with remaking each year:money:

    Doing some googling here and someone said dipping in lemon juice makes them keep the colour better? Anyone done this?
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  • Peartree
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    I've got a big, big bowl of pot pourri in sight at the moment. In the mix are dried orange slices and a couple of (now very small) dried oranges I did, ooh, around fifteen years ago. I know because that must have been two houses ago - since I moved out of there, I've always been finishing some DIY project just before Xmas and haven't had time to do the oranges again. Also, there's a tiny dried sweetcorn in the mix (bought) with a nibble out of it where my godson bit it when he was a toddler. He's fifteen now!

    They do seem to carry on drying out over the years and get smaller and smaller. I don't think they'd bear scrutiny in a bowl on their own!

    Bags of oranges half price at 90p in Morrison at the moment.
  • zippychick
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    Right, very exceptionally silly question time indeed.

    How dry should they go before I hang them? Squeezing the slice still gives juice? I am fully of stupid questions this evening

    Can i put them on the radiator straight with no kitchen roll now they are a bit dry? Just to see if they dry any quicker?

    I'm a silly girl
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  • zippychick
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    Do you think I got too carried away? :confused: Going to do more! :j

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  • zippychick
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    oops dupplicate pic!
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  • zippychick
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  • milliemonster
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    They look great!

    I was at lincoln xmas market last weekend and there was a stall there that was selling wreaths and mobiles made from dried chillies, ornage slices, cinnamon sticks etc, they looked great but were very expensive and I did wonder how you do your own so I am going to buy some ornages and have a go at this, thank you!!!
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  • InfamyInfamy
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    I am so pleased I read this thread yesterday! I have put a sliced up orange on a tray & greaseproof under the woodburner (which is on tick over) today. Only peril is the springer puppies might get them! Lol!
    Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!
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