Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-07
NEGLECTED FRUITS.
DELIcACIEs WHICH ARE NOT
 PROPERLY ENJOYED.
New Varieties of Fruit Come to Mar ket and Are Used by Foreign <, CTS 0nly-Native
 Berries.

Few NeW 1UTheIS hAOW lnC U uO HUH ness of the New York fruit markets.
 Almost every year new fruits with pc. culiar virtues, the special favorite oi some portion of the city's 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 prickly pears and trying to eat them raw and undressed. He never does it again though bushels of them are bought and eaten by the inhabitants of the quarter. If the casual visitor would learn the art of making prickly pears into salad he would understand perhaps why the Ital- ians like them.
 Another of the odd fruits of the Italian markets is pineapple, or, more accu. rately, pine cone In form 1t is like the pineapple with which everybody is ia. miliar, but in odor and color it is quite e different matter.
 It is very large pine cone, so thick and solid that 1t often weighs as much as two or three pounds. The biggest cost from five to ten cents, and the small. est may be had at the rate of two fol five cents.
 In its natural condition it looks as if you'd have to open it with hatchet or an oyster knife. Take it home and place it for few days in a warm place, or, If you are in hurry, put it for 15 minutes in moderately hot oven, and 1t spreads all it's wings. Beneath each chiplike you find meaty seed, and this is what the Italians eat A big cone will yield more than half pint of seeds.
 Figs are another neglected fruit, though they are sold on all stands and 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 mixture of figs, rhubarb and orange peel, which is good as soon as it is made, and can be kept indefinitely in properly sealed vessels.
 Probably nobody in town except the people of the Swedish colony ever eats the Swedish equivalent of the cranberry called lingon. Yet the fruit is imported by the hogshead, and sold in quart jars with quantity of its own magenta red juice at very moderate price. Compe tent judges think 1t is not so good as the cranberry, but it makes an excellent sauce with meats.
 A good many native fruits are neg lected by New Workers. Elderberries make an excellent jam or jelly, and in the suburbs may be had for the picking.
 f1dckleberrles are common enough in the New York market, but nobody in town ever eats the old Adirondack com. bination of flapjacks and huckleberries. When the combination is properly ac. complished the berries are thickIy 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 the berries warmed through. With butter and sugar the huckleberry flapjack is unsurpassed.
 New Workers are wasteful 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 recog. nized, 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.
 It is the parings sugared and rolled into disks that look like slices of rolled jelly cake. In the same way the inedible