The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-12-10
(Co"clu7ed from the Isl p0ge)

steam to escape. They are then her
medically sealed and spread over the
yard to cool. Each can OF fruit, be-
fore the syrup is added, weighs TWO
pounds.
All the apparatus and the tins USED
in the canning factories is imported
from New York.
Almost every modern cook book
furnishes receipts for making Jellles'
marmalade and preserves from the
pincapple.a The following, which las
been tested by the writer, is receipt
largely used in Florida for making
pineapple marmalade for family use
or in large quantities for trade. "Se,
lect large sugar-loaf pineapples, peel
them, take out the eyes, which are
not very deep in the sugar-loaf, ana
CRATE them on a porcelain grater
into an earthen dish. Do not CRATE
the core. Weigh the juice and pulp
and measure out to every pound
three quarters of a pound of sugar
Mix the sugar with the pulp and boil
it for an hour to an hour and three
quarters, until 1t is smooth, clean
paste and firm"
Chichi or pineapple wine is de-
lightful and favorite drink made OF
the pineapple in Mexico and other
tropical countries. A small quantity
is made as follows: Over the peel
ing of two pineapples pour one
quart of boiling water: allow it to
steep until cold, then sweeten to
taste, strain and bottle. Tie down
the cork and place the bottle on its
side: if placed in warm place 1t
will be ripe in "a hours. A small
piece of ginger placed in each bottle
will improve the flavor. If made in
large quantities, the whole pineapple
chopped should be used.
PINEAPPLE FIBRE.-The plant af-
fords fine fibre of practical utility
from the leaves, which are about 3
feet long by u to 2 inches wide,
strongly edged with spines except in
the one variety known as the smooth
leaved Cayenne. Besides the fine
ness of the fibre for textile fabrics,
it is remarkably strong when made
into cordage. government test
made in India proved that a rope 81
inches in circumference would bear u
weight of AZ cwt., it actually
breaking with 81 cwt. We quote
from published reports concerning
this fibre. This fibre however is
produced chiefly from a species of
wild pineapple, though the fibre of
the cultivated plant is of excellent
utility:
The pineapple grows in great
abundance in the PHILIPPINE Islands,
but produces only a small dry fruit.
We require, however, more precise
information to enable us to deter
mine whether this is actually the
plant escaped from cultivation. Mr..
Penelet, of Pondicherry, considers it
distinct species, and has named it
Bromelia pigna.
SIN preparing the fibre for weav-
ing, the fruit is not allowed to ripen
early; its removal causes the leaves
to increase considerably both in
length and IN breadth. A woman
places a board on the ground, and
upon it a leaf with the hollow side
upwards. Sitting at one end of the
board, she holds the leaf firmly with
her toes, and scrapes its outer sur
face with a potsherd, not with the
sharp fractured edge, but with the
blunt side of the rim; and thus the
leaf is reduced to rags. In this man
ner a stratum of coarse longitudinal
fibre is disclosed, and the operator,
placing her thumbnail beneath it,
lifts it up and draws it away in
compact strip, after which she
scrapes again until second fine
layer of fibre is laid bare. Then
turning the leaf round, she scrapes
its back, down to the layer of fibre,
which she seizes with her hand and
draws at once, to its full length,
away from the back of the leaf.
When the fibre has been washed, it
is dried in the sun. 1t is afterward
cOmbed with suitable comb, sorted
into four classes, tied together, and
treated like the fibre of the lupi. In
this crude manner are obtained the
threads for the celebrated web "nipis
de pima which is considered by
experts the finest in the world.
''In the PHILIPPINES, where the
fneness of the work is best under
stood and appreciated, richly en-
broidered costumes of this descrip-
ton have fetched about f200 each.
"This fine muslin-like fabric is al
so embroidered by the nuns of the
converts in Manila with great skill
and taste.
1.-The manufacture of the pima
fabric is carried on in the metropoli-
tan province of Fondo. From the
extraordinary facility with which the
pineapple is grown in the vicinity of
the equator, it seems almost certain
that by the application of European
skill to the process of separating the
fibre from the PUPPY matter of the
leaf, valuable raw material com
posed of it might be obtained for the
nations of Europe. The fibre by the
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