Evening star., 1903-07-11

and eaten with milk. Popcorn, like nuts
should be eaten with plenty of salt, but
buttered popcorn is not advised for those
whose digestion is not up to the standard.
At this season berries and bread and mill;
make a supper or luncheon dish that can
not be improved upon. This is an old New
England combination, dating back to the
days when our great grandmothers and
fathers then small boys and girls, ate their
blueberries and milk or spawn" and milk
out Of pewter porringers. Only sweet ber-
ries, like the blackcaps, huckleberries, ripe
strawberries or blackberries, should be
used, as tart ones would curdle the milk.
In some of the German sanitariums the
patients are put entirely on this diet dur
ing berry time, while noted Washington
specialist on stomach troubles orders
huckleberries galore, but beside the simple
bread and milk combination, advises ring
ing the changes by means of soup molds,
fruit juice, wine and jelly-all of the same
wholesome berry.
The banana, which is composed mainly OF
starch, Is one of the most nutritious OF
foods, but is too hearty to eat in quantity.
Only very ripe bananas should be eaten
raw. In selecting bananas avoid the slim
ones which have been picked green, then
kept until they turned yellow. They viii
always be found sour and "puckery" nc
matter how much yellow they have taken
on by standing. The banana grows fastest
at first in length, then "piumps" out. Ii
eaten raw every bit of the stringy fiber
should be removed and portions of decay
discarded Never use bananas as a first
course at breakfast, only acid fruits arc
desirable for that purpose Do not allow
the children to eat them too freely between
meals. They are so easy to swallow with
out masticatioR that they are out of sight
before one realizes. and attacks of indiges.
ton follow. Baked bananas, thoroughly
cooked. may be given even to a convalesc-
ing typhoid patient. though a ripe banana
would be rank poison. In baking banans
remove the skins. Make sirup of orange
and lemon juice. sugar and water, and a
little pineapple, if in season. Cook until
clear. Lay the bananas in fiat granite
dish, turn the sirup over them and bake
for fifteen or twenty minutes in hot oven.
When clear take the bananas out careful
ly, lay in a glass dish, then boil the sirup
down to jelly. Pour over the bananas and
chill.
Olives and olive oil are other natural
food products that Americans are only be-
ginning to appreciate as they should AS
"digesters, the olive cannot be surpassed
but the picked ripe, black olive. luscious
with Oil, perfect in flavor is vastly superior
to the green olive. In California and Ari-
zona, and in the Italian and Syrian quar-
ters of the large eastern cities these olives
are sold loose in bulk and are doing more
to popularize this wholesome fruit than
years of its green brother.
Pure olive OIL mot cottonseed, which pro-
duces indigestion, heart failure and kidney
trouble), holds in its amber depths a wealth
of healing. 1t is a tissue builder aids di-
gestion, thins the blood and produces vigor
and elasticity in the body. The noted Capt.
Diamond of San Francisco. who has attain
ell the ripe age of 1O6, attributes his longev-
ity and supplenesS to the free use of olive
oil, both internally and externally. For
rubbing over fish before broiling, for adding
to soups that need fatty stocks, just before
taking from the fire, as a substitute for
butter in compounding a white or brown
sauce, and even for eating on bread IN
place of butter, olive OIL is to be commend
ed while in the salad dressing il should ap-
pear on the home table once a day anyway
and that three hundred and slxty-five days
in the year.