The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-09-23
PRESERVED FRUITS.
An Important and IL ghiy Supporting aud
Strengthening Form of Food.

An Important and II ghiy Supporting aud
Strengthening Form of Food.
That making and selling fruit pre-
serves of all kinds is to be great in
dustry in this country is beyond ques-
ton. Very few have any idea of the
traffic in sweet fruits, as well AS tho
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 sIgared or glace
fruits on side table where people can
help themselves TO a sweetmeat ''when
so disposed 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 proiitably
enjoyed.
In all South American houses of the
least pretension. the cut glass and fill
basket OF "delicesn is as much part OF
the drawing groom order as hower-vases
with us, and sweets are eaten with n
freedom unknown at the North. Crys-
talized fruits appear Mt every meal, rs
regularly as the castor and salt cellar,
and this use of sugared CONNECTIONS UNI
doubleday has much to do with the bet
ter endurance Of heat.
Sugar and fruits in 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
sirups to prevent sunstroke and pslral-
ysis on hot desert marches Every
oriental traveller of experience knows
that sweet dates and honeyed conssrves,
or grape juice mingled with sugar, as
the Turks love it, keep up the strength,
and fortify the nerves against prostra.
ton by heat better than any phosphate
or medicine.
Men NJ WOTk On WlSOOtlSlu mar f'SSt
field, when the heat is one hundred
degrees in the shade for days togethc
will hardly feel discomfort il kept up
by free draughts of the delicious, re-
freshing grape-sirip few farmecs'
wives know the secret of--the principal
thing northern grape is good for.
Our grandfathers knew this principle
far enough to send huge jugs OF
switched" to the hot hay-field;. a drink
of vinegar, ginger, molasses and water,
which was substitute for fruit strip.
Barberry sirup is sovereign pre-.
scription for consumptives of a scrofu.
lous turn, taken by the gill. three oil
four times a day. Peach preserves with
the flavor OF the fruit and stones In
them can be eaten by persons of pool
digestion who could hardly digest com
mon yeast bread, and peach preserve
| made as it should be, is far better fol
the health than the common canned
peach, slightly green and rancous from
its keeping. Apple-butter and cidel
apple-sauce are good substitutes fol
potatoes in working diet, aud could be
eaten at two of the three meals day
with benefit in season, Preserves arr
not mere luscious luxury; they ar
AN important and highly supporting
form Of TODD. - YoViks Coaspaliom