The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-09-07
NEGLECTED FRUITS.
DELICACIES WHICH ARE NOT
PROPERLY ENJOYED.
New Varieties Of Fruit Come to Mar
ket and Are Used by Foreign
ers 0nly-Native
Berries.

Few New Workers know the true rich
ness of the New York fruit markets.
Almost every year new fruits with pc
culiar virtues, the special favorite OF
some portion of the city's polyglot in.
habitants, make their appearance in
some part Of the town. Many Of these
are lett to the particular people who
know them, states the Sun.
Now and then visitor to the Italian
quarter Is betrayed into buying prickly
pears and trying to eat them raw and
undressed. He never does 1t again,
though bushels of them are bought and
eaten by the inhabitants OF the quarter.
" the casual visitor would learn the art
of making prickly pears into salad he
would understand perhaps why the ltal-
ians like them.
Another OF the odd fruits of the Italian
markets is pineapple, or, more accu'
rately, a pine cone. In form 1t Is like the
pineapple with which everybody Is IA
miliar, but in odor and color 1t Is quite
q different matter. $1,000. '7'
It is a very large pine cone, SO thick
and solid that 1t often weighs as much
as two or three pounds. The biggest
cost from Ave to ten cents, and the small
est may be had at the rate Of two fol
i've cents.
In Its natural condition 1t looks as II
you'd have to open 1t with hatchet OF
an oystersknife. Take 1t home and place
1t for q few days In warm place, or, Il
you are in a hurry, put 1t for is minutes
in q moderately hot oven, and 1t spreads
all its wings. Beneath each chipliki
you find q meaty seed, and this Is VIVA
the Italians eat. A big cone will yielt
more than half . pint Of seeds.
Figs are another neglected fruit
though they are sold on all stands ant
In every fruit store. Those who know
buy them in considerable quantities ant
make them into delicious jams and pre-
serves.
One Of the best of these is mixtur'
OF figs. rhubarb and orange peel, which
Is good as soon as Il 10 made, and cal
be kept indefinitely In properly sealet
vessels.
Probably nobody In town except tn
people Of the Swedish colony ever eat
the Swedish equivalent of the cranberr!
called lingon. Yet the fruit Is importet
by the hogshead. and sold in quart Jar
with a quantity of It's own magenta ret
Juice at very moderate price. Compe
tent judges think It Is not 80 good as tn,
cranberry, but 1t makes an excellen
sauce with meats.
A good many native fruits are neg
lected by New Workers. Elderberrie
make an excellent jam or jelly, and ii
the suburbs may be had for the picking
Huckleberries are common enough II
the New York market, but nobody II
town ever eats the old Adirondack com
bination of fiapjacks and huckleberries
When the combination Is properly &C
complished the berries are thickl
stirred into the batter.
Then the flapjack, which should meas
ure not less than seven inches In diam
eter, is cooked long enough to get tn
berries warmed through. With butte
and sugar the huckleberry fiapjack /
unsurpassed.
New Workers are wasteful In the mat
ter Of fruit as in other things. Tons q
peaches are wasted In the season b
housewives who throw away the pal
ings.
In the regions where peaches ar
grown the value Of the parings is recoe
nized, and they are converted into jam,
iellies and fascinating conserve know
as peach leather. The name Is not q
Turing, but the thing is excellent.
1t is the parings sugared and role
Into disks that look like slices Of role
Jelly cake. In the same way the inedibl
part Of the watermelon is put up wit
sugar as substitute for citron.
A real clever housewife could all hi
lam closet for the winter by using tn
odds and ends Of fruit that well to d
New York family throws away.