The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-20
IMPROVED PECANS.
What an Enterprising Young woman
Has Succeeded i'm Doing.
Washington Post.

Personally / can't understand the sea-
sons fad for homemade bOnbons. No nor
NAL person over fourteen can possibly en-
JOY butter scotch. and outside OF a board
ing school Judges" are gritty and unpal-
atable things, but wherever l go these
days somebody offers me something in the
candy line which IS guaranteed TO be or
home manufacture. SO Tar the only thing
l can bring myself not TO fee from is a
candy made by an old colOred woman who
has established such a trade for herself
by means of il that she Is already begin
ming to take on airs. 1t comes in round
cakes, and she make IL, she says, after
the old Louisiana creole recipe, out OF
brown sugar and pecanS. She calls her
cakes pralines, and says they're precisely
what you buy on the banquettes of New
Orleans in carnival time. The exact recipe
but wherever one goes this summer the
really up-to-date hostess invites one TO
nibble at a freshly made praline.
The soul of the praline is the pecan. and
L venture 10 say that few OF you know that
the finest pecans in the world are raised by
a young Michigan girl, still in her early
twenties. II you can remember as far
back as the worlds fair in Chicago-and
the time is come when half the women I
meet were mere infants at that time. and
can't remember anything back OF James
x. Hacketts first starring seasOn-yOu
may recall an exhibit Of pecans there. The
pecan-raising industry was in It's infancy
then. and we knew only the small and
sometimes bitter nut the grocer sent us.
Al AAg1 - - 49, aaa.1 NANAA 1AAA IN
too young TO understand the mysterious
processes OF budding and grating which
60 to produce the wonderful new century
pecan.
Several years ago she succeeded her
father as the head of a pecan plantation
down at Ocean Springs, in Mississippi.
and with the c~lear-sighted energy OF the
typical new century girl she has made
the pecans from her establishment the
wonder Of the world. She conducts a
nursery, and sends trees all over the
u~arId evan To Australia and Naur H.
land. One Of her trees is beginning TO
bear pecans in a Washington suburb. and
another is fiourishing In Connecticut.
Most Of the nuts her older trees bear are
sold for planting purposes. but "A few of
them found their way 90 a Washington
dinner party not long ago. and scarcely
one OF the guests knew what manner OF
nut they might DE. They were about four
times the size OF the pecan we are accus-
toned TO eat, and their shells were so
thin that they were scarcely harder 10
crack than the plebeian peanut.
AS nuts they were a revelation. AS an
example OF what the modern girl can do
when she tries, they were-really. l can't
French government. however. has thought
OF something better than a word. Miss
Stuart was invited, through the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. 10 send some OF her
pecans 70 the recent exposition in Paris.
AMI as "A result she has received a
medaille d'argent. a photograph OF which
is proudly displayed by one OF her Wash
ington acquaintances. IL Is a delightful
work OF art. as French medals are won't
10 be. and II l were Miss Uena Stuart I
should feel exceedingly proud OF myself