The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-30
THE MUCH NEGLECTED LIME
It Is Wholesome, Refreshing and Very
Serviceable

ida, flOurish1ng In spite OF frost, the great
er part of Americas supply Of lines comes
from the West Indies, Trinidad, Hayti, ia
maica and other islands dotted with lime
estates. The trees are thrifty and live to
great age. They bloom twice-in the au-
tumn for the main crop, which begins to be
marketable in February, and again in
March for the late crop. which comes to
hand about the 1st of July Florida lime
trees bloom In February and again in June.
each poisoning yielding fruit some four
months later. Thus there is year-round
supply in the markets. Like most Of the
citrus family, the lime bears blossoms,
ripe fruit and green simultaneously
The men who handle them say the trade
is increasing and growing steadily. This is
exactly as 1t should be. Rightly. used
nothing Is more healthful. Lines are both
wholesomer and cheaper than lemons. For
rs cents you may buy a box holding over
100 Of fancy fruit. Or you may get twenty
five for a quarter at almost any fruit
stand. 1t is well, wherever It Is possible.
to buy the original package, as thereby you
get fruit much fresher and fuller of Juice.
The piquant twang Of lime Juice goes ex-
cellently with all manner of fish. Send
| lines In quarters to the table whenever
| you have baked fish or broled. Lime Juice
! instead of vinegar makes another dish of
salmon salad and gives new and pleasing
| zest even to little neck CLAIMS on the half
shell. Here is a dressing that for any sort
| Of fruit salad has been pronounced "simply
heavenly"
Salad Dressing-Squeeze out the Juice of
two hines lightly, then scrape the pulp into
a china bowl Sprinkle on 1t teaspoonful
| Of sugar, the same quantity Of celery salt, a
| saltspoon each Of white pepper and cay
enne pepper and a teaspoon Of brandy in
| which a stalk Of unbruised mint has in
| fused for an hour. Mix well. then add, a
| little at time, a tablespoon of sweet white
wine. Now put In another spoonful OF oil,
then much lime juice stirring all the
| while, so the ingredients shall not separate.
| II they are disposed to do it, dust In sus-
picion of corn starch and stir hard for five
| minutes-but there should be no need of the
starch. Keep on until all the lime Juice
is in, along with five spoonfuls of OIL Keep
| very cold until wanted.
| Lines as a Tonic-Drink either limeade
or the Juice of a lime in a small cup of
| unsweetened black coffee This is recon-
mended for reducing superfluous flesh. For
lime squash put little sugar In glass,
cover it with shaved ice. squeeze in the
| Juice and pulp Of lime-two If you like 1t
very strong. Fill the glass with club soda,
stir and drink at once. This can be varied
infinitely. You may put crushed strawber-
ries or cherries, and more sugar with the
ice, squeeze in your lines. put the glass In
a toddy shaker and shake until the Ice
| melts enough to make water unnecessary.
Fresh cherries, seeded. or even their juice,
make another agreeable variant. Or you
may double the amount Of sugar and ice,
| and fill up your glass with strong cold tea
or mineral water. In fact. there is no limit
| whatever to the refreshing drinks within
the potentialities Of shaved ice and lines.
Juep a la Hobson-Tel 1t not In Ken
lucky; publish 1t not in the streets of the
south country, but the mint julep has put
on frills-and bettered thereby. At least
that was the verdict of men who ought to
| have known. A woman made the juleps,
and this is how she did it: First she filled
| the shaker with ice broken to the size of
hailstones. Over 1t she poured a generous
| glass of five-year-old whisky and shook
until her arms ached. Meantime she had
| ready three tall, thin tumblers, with one
lump of ice and three of sugar In the bot
tom of each. and tender mint stalks just
| tall enough to come we'll above the brim
| all around the edges. She put tiny cube
| of fresh ripe pineapple on top of the sugar,
| then filled the glasses to within an inch
| of the top with the whisky and ice. On
| top of that she squeezed a lime and scooped
| out little of its flesh. The end crowned
| the work AS with one voice the drinkers
declared she had given a last touch to the
distinctive spirit of the south as the hero
| Of Santiago had given to its bravery-hence
| the name.
Rickey's Multiform-Whether Colonel
| Joe Hickey of st. Louis and the United
| States or the modest lime has most to ans
wer for who can tell? The colonel thrust
| himself on greatness when he taught a
perspiring world what GOODNESS lies in the
conjunction of gin and ice and lime juice.
The world has gone further and taught
| itself to apply Hickey principles to all man.
ner of liquid refreshments Hickey S
cordials abound; Rickey's au naturel, or
| with all manner of trimmings. The maxi
| ing thereof Is not complex. All that is
needed is a couple of tall, thin glasses,
| shaved ice, fresh lines. whatever spirit
| chosen, with bottle of very cold mineral
water. Fill one glass two-thirds full of
| ice, squeeze one or two lines upon it, also
| their pulp In the other glass put much
gin as you like, add mineral water then
| mix the contents of the two glasses and
drink Observation-Disclosures City Star.
|
Waiting in a Doctors Office
eff could have used the time have spent