The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-18
DO YOU KNOW
FRUIT DRYING.
Prom Harper's MAGAZINE.

Prom Hsrper's Magazine.
Before the process OF canning became
known, dried fruits were much more
generally used than now. The change
is in some respects unfortunate, for
dried fruits, when the drying is care
fully and intelligently done, are among
the most healthful of all articles of diet,
and are recommended by some of our
most distinguished physicians as being
better for use, especially for children
and invalids in hot Weather, than even
fresh fruits, unles. -hese can be had in
an hour or two after gathering. Dried
fruits really preserve much Of the flavor
and all the healthful properties of the
fresh fruits, without their liability 20
fermentation. This advantage they
share with canned fruits, but the latter
require TO be cooked with a certain
amount of sugar and both physicians
and chemists are becoming more and
more insistent upon the evils attending
the use of cane sugar, especially when
cooked with fruit acids.
Strawberries, Taspberries, blackber-
ries and goose berries do not dry 20 good
advantage, being composed principally
of flavor, water and seeds. The flavor
and water disappear, and only the seeds
remain. Currsnts and huckleberries
take more kindly 20 the process and
cherries. plums, apricots, peaches,
pears and apples are all exceedingly
good-aIwsys providing that the drying
is properly done.
Only perfect fruit, neither unripe
nor overripe, should be selected.
Huckleberries and currants need no
further preparation than washing and
picking over. Cherries and piums
need TO have their pits removed. and
peaches require, in addition, 70 be
pared and quartered. while the other
fruits need 10 be pared, cored and cut
into quarters or still smaller divisions
The oid-fashioned method OK thread
ing the quarters Of apples or pears
upon strings. 10 hang ia long festoons
on the sunny side Of the house or
against the kitchen wall, had many
disadvantages In the first place the
driving was necessarily 80 slow that
some parts of the fruit were aimost
sure - become IN a measure deccm-
posed before the drying WAS com
pleted, and in the second place the
festoons were exposed % the attacks
Of hosts OF flies; and a. The present cay
we know that il wa. not without req
son that the ancient Philistines named
their spirit % evil ''Beelze bob, god -
the flies. FOR there are no more indus
trious dissSminstors % disease than
they. The ~ which has come frDna
putrid oEal - 2light upon some sls2ht
scratch or piEpie may De instantly
brushed away. but perhaps not before
he has had time 20 deposit the blood
poison which NAV produces the dreaded
carbuucl@. or even The almost surely
fatal malignant pustule. or By aiighi-
ing upon articles Of food II may bring
infections which produce maaJ sorts
- stomach trOuble or eyea TYPHOID
fever or cholera
Tn dishes OF hst sheets q tln are
NOS. convenient for thss use. bat @ss
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ger % Their burning FOR TIE OYER that
j. h0: enough - barn tsc sod - quite
TOO hot f0r the fruit. whaeA scu!a -
cooked instead q dried '4h- best Way
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