San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27
The Cook {: q. :,l'. Book
BY JANE EDDINGTON
BY JANE EDDINGTON

years, and now know how he loves
| the avocado tree. 1t may, like the
orange, have blossoms and fruit at the
same time. We saw it at the garden
and at his orchards.
At the gardens also saw for the
first time a pineapple growing, was
given heavily loaded stems of loquats.
and was delighted 10 get the sour
tamarind bean, which grows on tree.
Alas, l cannot cook this fruit, which
dates from Bible times, TO find if /
can make what the old sailing vessels
used to bring home from the West In
dies. a preserve that had a delicious
sourness and was excellent in drinks,
priced for the invalid. In India the
tamarind is used in curries. l saw
the custard apple and a fig tree OF
the type that is the most breedy and
far reaching of trees. 1t would take
too much space TO describe it. but l
do not wonder that "Zacchy he, did
climb tree, his Lord to see" since
fig tree was at hand. 1t sends
down threads like strawberry runners
from its branches. which attach them
selves to the soil, soon become like
an iron rod, and then like a good
sized tree trunk. The roots go over
and under and through thick and
thin to far distant POINTS.
The Paypaya
This community seems TO refuse to
be educated to the calling of the
paypnya by its correct name. They
openly call it paw-paw in the stores
and hotels, although in one descrlp-
ton / have of it ''paw-paw" is
printed in capitals to emphasize its
incorrectness. ] had three little bits
of it the first day here, with three
little bits of romaine. as salad. and
it was called paw-paw on the menu.
1t is still the day of small portions
in the fine hotels and in this case
about one ounce of fruit likely 10
weight from >yo pounds up was used.
These tree melons sell for 10 and 30
cents pound. ] saw them for 10
cents after / had just paid 90 for the
smallest ] could get, or one weighing
pound and three-quarters. ] had
no difficulty in eating the whole of
the one | purchased-with bit of
salt-at a picked up luncheon. 1t
seems to have hundreds of not quite
round seeds of a notified gray agate
tyne. about the size of pea. and
a thin. somewhat suuashlike peel Ac-
cording to a little booklet. this fruit
may weigh ten pounds. 1t hangs close
to the trunk of the tree on which it
grows. dropping in a most curious
fashion.
A part of the description of it reads
as hollow like cantaloune. with
numerous seeds having the flavor of
nasturitum. Freely eaten in the
fronics because the juice is the vege-
table pepsin of commerce, known ms
papaln. and contained in most diges-
i've remedies in common USE"
In Harper's Magazine for February,
in the first article by Air to the
Heart Of the Andes "a breakfast tray
Is described as having on it Oranges
and paypaya. toast and ham, boiled
eggs and coffee" and two bananas.
And on pages 427 and 42S of taat
same magazine you will find discus
sion OF the Hoosier pawpaw. some
thing else again. discussed because
Mr.. Meredith Nicholson had praised
1t and presented basketball "to tie
editors"
The SapOdilIa.
On sale the sapodilla looks like lot
of poor russell apples or potatoes of
some sort. but from what the sales
person may say you can imagir~ Won
are going to get large hunk of
gum when you eat it, But,
with all its sweetness, it seemed 20
me more like an apple Than any other
tropical fruit have tasted. 1t is
compared TO the peach. hut seems 20
mo entirely lacking in the character