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Gooseberry Water Ice

Squeeze juice from stewed berries unsweetened, or the very ripe berries, allowing a pound of sugar to each pint. Mix well and freeze.

The juice from the stewed fruit may be used further, for custards and creams as well.

L CHAPTER XIV THE LEMON (Citrus limonum: Rutacee) EMONS are not often enough used as food, drink, or medicine. There is nothing more wholesome in natural foods, more effective in toning the system and purifying the blood (unless for some special reason the acid is directly prohibited; see note on potash in Introduction) than this most positive of citrus fruits. It is a special agent with the liver, acting directly upon it and assisting with the proper action of the bowels, cooling the blood and reaching or preventing a long list of ailments which take their rise in disorders of the liver. It is true that the liver may be made torpid by the nerves, which affect it strongly, so that worry, for instance, will partially paralyse its freedom and cause heavy colds and more serious troubles, but whether from improper physical or mental diet-from whatever cause-a clogged liver can make one as miserable, as discouraged and ill as one can be and live. If too late to remove the cause the condition should be relieved or it goes further, being, without doubt, the cause of suicides from the resulting mental depression, as well as "death from natural causes," through disordering the functions of other vital organs of the body. Vividly picturesque descriptions of the horrors of these various resulting complications may be found in almost any patent medicine circular, for it is upon the liver that the authors of these literary gems place the blame for most of the ills to which flesh is heir.

The public is not so apt to seek or dwell upon written or realised liver-nightmares when lemons are plentifully and judiciously used. Malaria is one of the "simple" and direct results of a rebellious, inactive liver, and one most commonly known. Typhoid, with its more serious, .complicated aspect, comes under this head, yet physicians claim that even these germs can be driven out or actually killed by the plentiful and timely use of lemons. It is, however, not only the juice which is beneficial sometimes, the rind being a helpful accessory, as the method of preparing and using it in Roman malarial districts proves, as does also an old-fashioned remedy for colds. It is claimed that it will entirely prevent or cure scurvy and "in England every foreign-going ship is required by law to take such a supply of lemon juice that every seaman shall have a daily allowance of an ounce after having been ten days at sea "-Wood & Bache. As a cooling drink its refrigerant qualities are proven-especially when used without sugar, which is heating. Even merely as an accessory or flavouring it is extremely refreshing in food or drink and many not commonly known ways of using the lemon are here presented, as well as others more conventional, as of value in that very common and natural desire for variety. (It should be remembered that lemon juice, or any other acid, should never be placed in tin receptacles. Use enamel or porcelain.)