Next cut the rind along the edge of the tape (Fig. 7). Remove the skin, in bits if necessary, to avoid any likelihood of tearing the handle or edge of the basket. Work the inside juicy fruit free from the remaining rind and take it out of the basket. If there is difficulty in doing this, cut the fruit out in pieces, that the basket may be saved from breaking (Fig.8). Pass a narrow ribbon around under the basket and up over the handle. Tie the ends, then bind them around under and over the middle of the handle, finishing with a bow-knot on top. The ribbon strengthens the handle, and without it the weight of the basket when hung on the tree would cause it to break from the handle and fall. Fill the orange basket with sections of the fruit, which have received a brittle coating by being dipped in clear, hot, home-made sugar candy (Fig. 9).
FROM: "CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS, Good to Eat & Good to Look Upon". From "The Delineator" December 1901. |
