Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-10
VIRTUES OF FRUITS
NATURES REMEDY FOR THE ILLS
OF FLESH.
Peppering Strawberries Makes Them
Acceptable to Those Who Have
DisGked Them.
From the New York Mail and Express.

From the New York Mail and Express.
"If our bilious friends would throw
aside their liver pills and study nature
in her most smiling and bounteous mood
they would allow her to tempt them as
Eve tempted old Adam; they would take
to fruit and by pleasant, natural and
healthful methods free themselves of the
thick. bilious Impurities which make them
a nuisance to themselves as well to
all around them" So quoted Miss Helen
Louise Johnson from an authority on the
therapeutic value of fruits. in her lecture
on Fruits and How to Prepare Them in
the domestic science department of the
Brooklyn Institute
She then said: "The uses of fruits are
not alone to furnish nutriment. but to
carry water and to introduce various salts
and organic acids into the system, in order
to stimulate appetite and to improve d.
gestion. Like all other foods, if eaten
improperly and to excess, when too ripe
or too green. they will disagree. DR.. Gill
man Thompson says: Cooked fruit may be
eaten with any meal, but when fruit is
eaten for special dietetic purposes its eff
feet is always more pronounced II taken
alone, either at the commencement of meals
or, better. between them. The poorest time
for eating fruit is at the end of very
hearty dinner at which considerable va
Fruit in general is less wholesome when
eaten out of it's natural season.
Fresh fruits, such as oranges. shad-
docks and others of that character are
better taken before breakfast than after,
provided they agree with the person
Pepper on Strawberries.
Many persons cannot eat strawberries
because of the acid which they contain.
Miss johnson has found by personal ex-
r.hi} vi,
killed. on the fruit counteracts the effect
of the acidty without impairing the deli
cate flavor of the berries:
One of the most pleasing mixtures Of
fresh fruits is that of large ripe red rasp-
berries and white currantS, blended with
a strip favored with orange and lemon
Juice and trapped. Punch or fruit mix
lures of this kind may be served at va
rious times. as the first course Of lunch
con or breakfast in warm weather, as des-
sert at informal luncheon or in the
place of and in the same way as frozen
punch after the roast. 1t also be
made of all sorts and conditions of fruits,
canned, preserved or fresh. Such COM
binations belong to the chapter in cook
books which should be headed ITO be mix
ed with taste and Skill Certain direc-
lions and suggestions are mentioned as
guide posts only, but the selection, the
blending, the f1avoring and serving are mat
ters of individual taste and cultivation.
Uses of Bananas.
Bananas. which contain a large per-
centage of starch, highly nutritive
and If eaten at the beginning of meal
they are better baked. To prepare, say
six bananas in this way, make a sirup
of the juice of two oranges, one lemon and
half cup of sugar. Put the bananas in a
fiat granite baking dish and cover with
the juice. Put into fairly hot oven and
bake for twenty or twenty-five minutes
until the fruit looks fairly clear. Basic oc-
casionally, and If necessary turn the ba-
nanas over once so the juice may be dis
tributed evenly throughout. After they are
baked remove from the strip and cook
the latter to jelly; then put the jelly over
the bananas and chill. Serve as dessert.
For a person recovering from typhoid
fever bananas cooked in this way are
said to be very beneficial. Care should
be taken, however. that they are thor
oughly baked. SO that all the starch has
been turned to sugar.