The Guava
Guava with Macaroni
a For this use only the very tart fruit. Peel and put pulp through sieve. In one pint of pulp rub smooth teaspoon of flour with a teaspoon…
Guava Fritters
Peel and slice thick the fruit (removing seeds). The lengthwise slices are best where seeds are prominent. Dip in fritter batter (see…
Guava Shortcake
Make a sauce (as above), preferably with the uncooked fruit, and serve as for Strawberry Shortcake. (See also Introductory Recipes.)
Guava Custard
To the yolks of three whipped eggs add three cups guava pulp, one pint of milk, a little orange peel, two teaspoons cornstarch, a pinch of…
Other Desserts
Guavas may be used with all of the foundation formulas given in Introductory Recipes and will be found very delicious with gelatine and…
The Sour Sop
a lemon added for each half-pint; add warm, granulated sugar, cup for cup with the juice, and let melt and boil. This should jell in about…
Cattley Guava Jelly
The Cattley may be used in its mature or immature stages, its general tartness precluding the necessity generally of using lemon juice with…
Guava Paste
This is a heavy, pasty jelly much esteemed as a delicacy. Use for the unripe fruit three-fourths its weight in sugar. Cook the sugar in a…
Guava Marmalade
Cook as for jelly, pressing through coarse sieve when soft. Cook up again with equal quantity of sugar, adding juice of one lemon to each…
Guava Preserve
Peel and halve ripe guavas, removing seeds with pointed spoon. For each pint of fruit add one pound of sugar and three-fourths pint of…
Guava Sweet Pickle
Make a syrup of three pounds of sugar to each quart of vinegar and six pounds of fruit, adding a teaspoon each of allspice, mace, cloves…
Guava Catsup
Slice ripe guavas and cover with cold water. Let simmer till soft, then rub through colander and coarse sieve (both). To each four quarts…
Guava Chutney
To five pounds of guavas, peeled and crushed free of seed, add two pounds of brown sugar, and two quarts of strong vinegar. Simmer till…
Guava Vinegar
Save all parings and seeds from fresh or cooked guavas and place in stone jar, covering with cold water. Over the mouth of jar tie thin…
And Marmalade Box
T THE ROSE APPLE or Eugenia Jambos HIS beautiful, dainty fruit is of the same large family of which the guava is a member, the Myrtaceæ…
Malay Apple and Java Plum
The Malay Apple (E. Malaccensis) is not unlike the Rose Apple, though larger; in colour the same: pink and white. The Java Plum (E…
The Pomegranate
Punica Granatum THE HE pomegranate was for very long considered, like the guava, a member of the Myrtle Family, now more commonly reckoned…
Pomegranate Ice
Cut a dozen ripe pomegranates in half and remove seeds from the rind carefully. In the juice stir till dissolved one pound of sugar. Add…
Pomegranate Syrup
Press and strain from seeds and cook down juice till thick, when add sugar (see Fruit Syrup: Introductory Recipes). The uncooked juice is…
Jelly, Jam, Etc
Use the tart varieties or those somewhat under-ripe and proceed as for other such preparations. The jelly resulting is particularly…
The Custard Apple, the Cherimoya
SWEET AND SOUR SOP AND POND APPLE Anonacea WITH one exception (the wild, North American papaw) the members of the Anonacee or Custard Apple…
Hese
two tropical fruits are related and both of them are extremely delicious, the Mangosteen often being declared to be "finest fruit in the…
Sapota, Star Apple, Cocoa Plum And
EGG FRUIT (or "Ti-es") T HESE fruits come under the Sapotacea and are a very delicious group. The Sapodilla, or Sapodilla Plum, or "Dilly,"…
Semi-Tropical Fruits
THE HE mango (Mangifera Indica) is one of the most delicious and one of the most maligned of tropical fruits, this state of affairs arising…
Six Familiar Fruits
some of the latter of which grow to the size of a small melon. It was named, it is said, by the early Spaniards for the pomegranate, or…
Some of the Less Known Fruits
THE HE Otaheite and Spanish or Barbadoes gooseberries are "gooseberries" by courtesy only, although the resemblance is not strained. The…