The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-27
PRESERVED FRUITS.

An Important and ii ghiy Supporting ana
Strengthening Form OF Food.
That making and selling fruit pre-
serves of all kinds is to be a great in
dustry in this country is beyond ques-
ton. Very few have any idea OF the
traffic in sweet fruits, as well as the
common dried ones. England alone
imports nearly or quite three million
pounds sterling in value of sugared
fruits and preserves from the south OF
Europe. annually. and this country is
not behind in proportion to its size.
Our common people use far more cur
rants, raisins and preserves than the
same class in England.
Well-to-do families in New York and
the West are falling into the habit OF
keeping handsome glass or silver dish
of CONNECTIONS and sugared or glace
fruits on side table where people can
help themselves to sweetmeat "when
so disposed" US Incessant nibhling at
good things is ruinous to health, but
when exercise or business have used up
the fuel of the system more rapidly than
usual, bonbon may be very profitably
| enjoyed.
In all South American houses of the
least pretension. the cut glass and fill
basket of .sdelices'' is as much part OF
the drawing-room order as flower-vases
with us, and sweets are eaten with a
freedom unknown at the North. Crys-
talized fruits appear at every meal, as
regularly as the castor and salt cellar,
and this use of sugared CONNECTIONS un-
doubtedly has much to do with the bet
ter endurance OF heat.
Sugar and fruitsin hot countries and
hot weather support the system as meat
and fat foods do in cold climates. The
French troops in Algiers learn this by
experience. and depend on sugared
yirups to prevent sunstroke and paral-
ysis on hot desert marches. Every
oriental traveller of experience knows
that sweet dates and honeyed conserves.
Or grape juice mingled with sugar, as
the Turks love it, keep up the strength,
and fortify the nerves against prostra'
lion by heat better than any phosph ate
Or medicine.
Men at work on Wisconsin harvest
field. when the heat is one hundred
degrees in the shade for days toget her,
will hardly feel discomfort il kept ur
by free draughts of the delicious, re,
freshing grape-sirup few farmers
wives know the secret of-the principal
thing a northern grape is good for
Our prandfathers knew this principle
far enough to send huge jugs Of
..switchei' to the hot bayfield,; a drink
of vinegar, ginger. molasses and water
J which was q substitute for fruit sirup
u Burberry sirup is a sovereign pre-
scription for consumptives OF scrofu
lous turn, taken by the gill. three o
] four times asday. Peach preserves will
i the flavor Of the fruit and stones II
, them can be,eaten by persons OF poo
digestion who could hardly digest com
J mon yeast bread, and peach preserve
i made as it should be, is far better 10
: the health than the common cannes
! peach, slightly green and rancous fror
? it's keeping. Apple-butter and eide
8 apple-sauce are good substitutes TO
Q potatoes in working diet. and could D
). eaten at two of the three meals da
with benefit in season. Preserves ar
not mere luscious luxury; they ar
9 an important and highly support1n
form Of food. Youths Companion