The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-09-22

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 fayorite OF
some portion of the citys polyglot in
habitants, make their appearance in
some part of the town, Many of these
| are left to the particular people who
know them, states the Sun.
Now and then visitor to the Italian
quarter Is betrayed into buying pricily
pears and trying to eat them raw and
addressed lie never does II again,
! enough bushels of them are bought and
eaten by the inhabitants of the quarter,
# the casual visitor would learn the art
of making prlCkly pears into salad he
would understand perhaps why the ltal-
/ iaus Ike them.
Another Of the odd fruits Of the Italian
markets is pineapple, or, more accu.
ratcly pine cone. In form II is like the
pineapple with which everybody is IA
, miller. but in odur and color IT IL quite
| different matter
| II Is 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 he had at the rate Of two for
| I've cents.
In It's natural condition 1t looks as II
| you'd have to open II with Ratchet or
! an oyster knife. Take It home and place
| a. Boa t..,,y 40, Ia, "a ali
you are In hurry, put II for 10 minutes
IN moderately hot oven, and 1t spreada
all It's wings. Beneath each chiplika
| you lnd n mc6ty seed, and this is what
the Italians eat A big cone will YIELD
more than half a pint of seeds,
Figs are another neglected fruit,
! though they are sold on all stands ana
| In every fruit store Those who know
| buy them In considerable quantities and
make them into delicious jams and pre-
serves
/ One Of the best of these Is a mixture
OF figs, rhubarb and orange peel which
! Is good as soon as 1t Is made. and can
b. KEEP, indefinitely In properly scaled
vessels
Probably nobody in town except the
people of the Swedish colony ever eats
the Swedish equivalent of the cranberry
called linE0n. Yet the fruit Is imported
by the hOgshcad, and sold In quart jars
| with quantity of its own magenta red
| Juice at a very moderate price Cumpe.
tent judges think 1t Is not So good ms the
cranberry but It makes an excellent
sauce with meats
a good many native fruits are neg
lcctcd by New Workers. Eldcrberrics
make an excellent Jam or Jelly. and H.
the suburbs may be had for the picking
Hucklcbcrrics are common enough In
the New York market, hut nobody in
town ever eats the old Adirondack com
buation Of llapjacl,s and hucIIeberrics
When the combination Is properly nc
complished the berries are thickly
stirred into the batter
Then the fapjack, which should meas
ure not less than seven inches in diam.
oter. is cooked long enough to ret tho
berries warmed through. with butter
and sugar the huc,lcbcrry napjack is
unsurpassed
New Workers are wastofu in the mat
ter Of fruit as In other things Tons of
peaches are wasted In the season by
housewives who throw away the par
ings.
In the regions where peaches are
grown the value of the parinGs Is rccOg
ni2ed, and they are converted into jams,
jellies and fascinating conserve known
as peach leather. The name is not al
Turing, but the thing is excellent.
1t Is the parings sugarcd and rolled
into disks that look like slices of rolled
jelly cake. In the same way the lnedibl.,
part OF the watermelon is put up with
sugar as n substitute for Citrun
a real clever housewife could iii her
Jam closet for the winter by using the
odds and ends of fruit that well to do
New York family throws away.