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• Banana Roby - The collection began with labels and traders of bananas and mangoes. Now, the labels come from other fruits and are sorted by form (eye, leaf or triangle). [Also in Italian.]
• Citrus Label Society - Collectors social organization in Southern California, USA.
• Etichettando - Fruit labels collection, with label history, collecting information, duplicates for exchange. [English and Italian.]
• Fruit stickers album - Helen, from Novosibirsk, Russia presents her collection of fruit stickers and fruit bags. She has a special section for duplicates. [English and Russian.]
• Guskin - Olga presents her collection. Labels are classified by fruits. [Also in Russian.]
• La Valse des étiquettes - Presentation of fruit and vegetable stickers from all over the world and of citrus wrappers. [Also in French.]
• Ludmila's Labels - Web gallery from a collector of fruit and vegetable labels and stickers. [Also in Czech.]
• Nalepky - Labels are classified by country. The whole collection is presented in the page called "Universal". [Multilingual.]
• Natalia-Duplicate - Natalie Schramm has now over eight thousand fruit stickers classified by fruit. [Also in Russian.]
• Nonsoloarance - Romana Gardani presents her collection of fruit wrappers, orange papers, fruit stickers, books and other. [Multilingual.]
• Nálepky z ovoce - The Stickers from fruits - Labels are sorted by alphabetical order. There are special categories for bananas, for leaves and for stickers from Australia. [Also in Czech.]
• PMA - The Produce Marketing Association provides the list of the Price-Look Up (PLU) codes for fresh fruits and vegetables. Research is available.
• Roger Harris' web-site - Has two sections about fruit collections. One is about fruit labels and the second one about fruit wrappers. Of course, the editor presents his collection but he gives many information about.
• Spanish Citrus Historical Museum - Presents the history of citrus in Spain, including pictures of vintage crate labels. The museum is at Borriana, Spain. [Multilingual.]
• Stickers from Lucie Skalova - Collection and duplicates are sorted by countrie. A page is dedicated to wrappers.
• The Citrus Label Gallery - Is sedicated to preserving and sharing the wonderfull world of citrus labels.
• The World of Fruit Labels - Includes database of stickers used on fruit products.
• Watermelons labels - Carl Sikora presents the two volumes of his collection of Watermelons labels of the world.

Random Indian Recipes:-

• Balushai
  Make the syrup of 2 string consistency and add rose essence and lemon juice. In a plate sieve flour and baking soda together and keep aside. In a big plate take curd,2 tsp sugar and 1&1/2 cup ghee and beat finely for 4-5 min. Now add maida and soda. Knead the dough smoothly. Use curd if necessary.(no water) Make small balls off the whole dough and press them a bit. Make thumb impression in center. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for 10 min. Heat ghee in a pan and fry balushai on a ...
  
  
• Bangda Fish Curry
  Clean the pieces. apply salt and 1/2 tsp turmeric powder. Keep aside for 30 min. On hot tava fry urid dal for a min. Then in a mixture take fresh coconut,onion,red mirchi powder,turmeric powder,urid dal,methi seeds,coriander seeds and black pepper. Make fine paste using enough water. In a pan ...
  
  
• Aamras
  Soak alphonso mangoes in water for 1 hour. After 1 hour press mangoes by fingers lightly. Remove the tip and skin of mangoes. Press and take out the pulp into a bowl. With the help of milk take out all the remaining pulp of the seeds. Mix both in the blender and blend till smooth. Add sugar and elaichi powder. Enjoy with hot puris.
  
  
• Aluchi Bhaji
  Soak the peanuts for an hour and cook in a pressure cooker. Clean the alu (colocassia leaves) well and shred them finely. Heat oil in a pan and add crushed garlic cloves. Allow to turn brown on low flame and add asafoetida. Now add shreded leaves and finely chopped green chilly. Saute finely on mid flame and add cooked peanuts.
  
  
• Vanila Ice Cream
  Take 2 3/4 cup of milk in a pan add sugar and keep boiling. Add chinagrass and cornflour in cold 1/4 cup of milk and mix well. Add in hot milk stir and cook on low flame (cook untill thick). Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Add vanila essence and fresh cream.mix in mixture. Pour the mixture in aluminium tin and keep to set in refrigerator. When it will half set again mix in mixture and keep in refrigerator to set.
  
  
• Phodnicha Bhat
  Chop onion,green chilly and coriander leaves finely. In a pan heat oil and add mustard seeds. When it starts to splutter add finely chopped green chilly and kadipatta. Now add finely chopped onion and fry for 2-3 min till transperent. Add asafoetida and turmeric powder. Now add cooked rice with salt. Mix finely and...
  
  
• Smoke Chicken
  First clean the chicken and apply ginger garlic paste,curd,salt and red colour and keep aside for 1 hour. After one hour in a pan take 2 tbsp oil and fry onion for 4-5 min. Add red chilly powder,turmeric powder and fry for one min. Now pour marinated chicken in pan and allow to cook. When oil started to seperate from the mixture add garam masala powder. Burn koyla on gas. When koyla burn fully put this koyla in ...
  
  
• Mohanthal
  Heat ghee in a pan and add besan. Fry on a low flame till you get a nice smell (light brown colour). Remove from heat and transfer to a bowl. Add milk powder and mix well and keep aside. In another pan make syrup of one cup of water and sugar. Boil till one string consistancy. Add besan mixture and elaichi powder. Remove from heat and stir continuously till the mixture thickens. Pour the mixture into greased thali and spread evenly. Sprinkle cashewnuts pieces and set aside to cool and set. Cut into squares.
  
  
• Pulao
  First clean and wash rice.drain all water and keep aside for 1 hour. Cut vegetables in shape as you want. Grate coconut and extract coconut juice with warm water. In a cooker pan take 4 tbsp ghee or oil. to this add cloves,dalchini and pepper. Then add chopped green chillies and onions .fry till onion is brown in colour. Now add rice and saute it for ...
  
  
• Kadboli
  In a pan heat butter and add rice flour,maida,Sesame seeds,red chilly powder and salt. Mix well and knead dough using hot water. Cover the dough and keep aside for 40 min. After 40 min knead again and make small balls out of dough. Now make into rope and give kadboli shape. Heat oil in a kadai and fry kadbolis on low flame till dark brown. Allow to cool and store in air-tight container.