Peaches, bananas, apricots, figs, nectarines, plums and
pomegranates should be sliced and the sweet combined
with the tart so as to make a sub-acid dish which will prove
of inestimable value to those suffering from indigestion and
liver complaint.
Bananas should be mashed when to be eaten alone
and served with grape juice and whipped cream, or baked
with rice or used as fritters.
Dates do not reach us in their ripe state, but in the
cured, and are eliminators only when combined with figs,
while with additional nut 'cream they will be an excellent
and nutritious food to those caring for a heavy dish.
Cherries should be eaten by themselves and two different
varieties should be indulged in, the sweet and the hearty
ones, black and red, and black and v/hite. They are ''food
for the Gods" and much might be said of their valuable
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properties. Eat cherries daily while they last and make a
meal on them. Consumptives, catarrhals and those suffer-
ing from hay fever will find in the cherry a remedy.
Grapes, Hke cherries, should be eaten by themselves, but
it is well to combine two or three varieties. The white
alone prove of value to rheumatic and dropsical people.
Catarrhal and bronchial people should not use any grapes.
The fresh juice of grapes, particularly of the black or blue,
will be of medicinal value to all those suffering from over-
accumulation of salts and acids, if used in small quantities
at a time, several times a day, and to the amount of one
pint a day, for the period of six weeks.
Grapefruit is best during winter and early spring.
Lemons are of inestimable value all the year around
and may be used advantageously to redeem saccharine
fruits and fruits altho very aciduous yet of high flavor.
P>uits that would prove otherwise too tart will be increased
in medicinal value when prepared with lemon juice. The
limes may be used in the same way, altho less advan-
tageously.
Fresh fruits when cooked lose a great deal of their
medicinal value when cooked with fresh water. A little
distilled water may be used or well-filtered rain water just
to give the fruit thru steaming time to eventually cook in
its own juice. A little sweet butter may be added to raise
the heat and thus retain the flavor. Sugar should not be
used, but syrup, honey or molasses may be added just a few
minutes before the dish is to be taken from the fire.
Flavors may be used in their original natural state, like
tonka beans or vanilla pods, cinnamon bark and cloves. They
should be added about fifteen minutes before the dish is to
be taken off the fire and then be removed, as allowing these
sticks to remain in the dish will rob the fruit of its delicate
flavors and depreciate its medicinal value.
Orange, citrus and lemon peels may be used in the same
way as the flavors and to a great advantage.
Disease germs of a mineral nature may be readily
eliminated from the system thru a judicious selection of
fruits. To effect a cure it will be necessary for the north-
erner to use the fruits of the extreme South or the tropics,
while the equatorian should confine himself to northern
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products. In this case it will not be necessary for either of
them to leave their place of business, as change and recrea-
tion does not imply change of scenery, but change of
methods.
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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Peaches, bananas, apricots, figs, nectarines, plums and pomegranates should be sliced and the sweet combined with the tart so as to make a sub-acid dish which will prove of inestimable value to those suffering from indigestion and liver complaint.
Bananas should be mashed when to be eaten alone and served with grape juice and whipped cream, or baked with rice or used as fritters.
Dates do not reach us in their ripe state, but in the cured, and are eliminators only when combined with figs, while with additional nut 'cream they will be an excellent and nutritious food to those caring for a heavy dish.
Cherries should be eaten by themselves and two different varieties should be indulged in, the sweet and the hearty ones, black and red, and black and white. They are ''food for the Gods" and much might be said of their valuable
properties. Eat cherries daily while they last and make a meal on them. Consumptives, catarrhals and those suffering from hay fever will find in the cherry a remedy.
Grapes, Hke cherries, should be eaten by themselves, but it is well to combine two or three varieties. The white alone prove of value to rheumatic and dropsical people. Catarrhal and bronchial people should not use any grapes. The fresh juice of grapes, particularly of the black or blue, will be of medicinal value to all those suffering from overaccumulation of salts and acids, if used in small quantities at a time, several times a day, and to the amount of one pint a day, for the period of six weeks.
Grapefruit is best during winter and early spring.
Lemons are of inestimable value all the year around and may be used advantageously to redeem saccharine fruits and fruits altho very aciduous yet of high flavor. Fruits that would prove otherwise too tart will be increased in medicinal value when prepared with lemon juice. The limes may be used in the same way, altho less advantageously.
Fresh fruits when cooked lose a great deal of their medicinal value when cooked with fresh water. A little distilled water may be used or well-filtered rain water just to give the fruit thru steaming time to eventually cook in its own juice. A little sweet butter may be added to raise the heat and thus retain the flavor. Sugar should not be used, but syrup, honey or molasses may be added just a few minutes before the dish is to be taken from the fire.
Flavors may be used in their original natural state, like tonka beans or vanilla pods, cinnamon bark and cloves. They should be added about fifteen minutes before the dish is to be taken off the fire and then be removed, as allowing these sticks to remain in the dish will rob the fruit of its delicate flavors and depreciate its medicinal value.
Orange, citrus and lemon peels may be used in the same way as the flavors and to a great advantage.
Disease germs of a mineral nature may be readily eliminated from the system thru a judicious selection of fruits. To effect a cure it will be necessary for the northerner to use the fruits of the extreme South or the tropics, while the equatorian should confine himself to northern
products. In this case it will not be necessary for either of them to leave their place of business, as change and recreation does not imply change of scenery, but change of methods.