Fruit Recipes

Nine hundred ways with fruit, 1907 — apple to pomegranate, each fruit given its history, its food value and its recipes.

Recipes

13 recipes in this part of Fruit Recipes.

Loquats Stewed

Loquats may be stewed when but half ripe, or when fully mature, or half and half. Rub off the fuzz; remove stems and seeds, or merely wipe…

Loquat Jelly

Preferably gather the loquats when full sized but still hard and only partially turned in colour. Wash and remove blossom ends. Place on…

Loquat Marmalade

The fruit pulp left from the jelly may be put through a sieve and cooked down with equal quantity of sugar till of the right consistency.

Loquat Jam

Loquat jam, when made with the unripe fruit, as for jelly, closely resembles the cherry in colour and is not unlike it in flavour though…

The Medlar and the Loquat (Prettier if made)

are prettier if made from the whole, fresh fruit instead of from the jelly pulp. For the jam wash and seed the fruit, removing the blossom…

Blossoms of the Loquat Tree

Evergreen and handsome at all seasons CHINESE OR PEEN-TO PEACHES GROWN IN FLORIDA

Spanish Cherries

given to even typhoid patients with success when fruits as a rule are forbidden. Also, peaches have been found beneficial in serious cases…

Peach Salads

Peaches may be served half and half with bananas, or with almonds (one-fifth almonds), with celery and walnuts, or fine-chopped apple or…

Peach and Prune Soup

PEACH SOUP No. 2 (Cold) Pare, stone, and chop peaches. Sprinkle over them sugar in quantity desired and let stand an hour. To a pint of…

To Serve the Guava Uncooked

Peel the fruit, selecting if possible the nearly seedless varieties, and where the seeds are virtually nil slice across the fruit and serve…

Stewed Guava

Peel and proceed as above, then cover with cold water or sweet milk and simmer gently until tender. At this stage add sugar, or sugar and…

Guava Sauce

This may be made with the cooked or fresh guavas. Peel and put through a coarse sieve or fruit crusher to remove the seeds. The pulp…

Guava Salads

Peel and slice as far outside the seed centre as possible, removing seeds remaining on inner side. It is advisable to use either the large…

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