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CHAP▪ 115. Of Orenges.
ORenges are not wholly of one temperature, for the rinde is hot in the first degree, and drie in the second, the juice of them is cold in the second degree, and dry in the first. They are colder and hotter as they are in sourenesse or sweetnesse. For the sourer the juice i••, the colder it is, and the sweeter, the more hot. With the juice of Orenges is made a syrrup, and a conserva very good and comfortable in hot fevers, and for one that hath a hot stomackes. Also with the juice putting to a little pouder of Mints, Sugar, and Cinomon may be made a very good sawce for a weake stomacke, to provoke appetite. The rindes are preserved condite in sugar, and so are the flowers of the Orenge tree. Either of them being taken in a little quantity, doe greatly comfort a feeble stomacke. The substance of the Orenge is used to be eaten raw with rosted flesh, as a sawce, yet Matth. doth not commend it, Quia cru∣da non facilè coctioni obediunt,* 1.1 & crassum generant succum. But Lady Gula hath not onely commended them to be eaten with meats, but also devised a banquetting dish to be made with sliced Orenges and sugar cast upon them.