Fruit Recipes

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

This site is the complete 1907 book Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Values of Fruits, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

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The Book

3 recipes

Introductory Recipes

43 recipes

The Apple

68 recipes

The Pear

34 recipes

Recipes

13 recipes

The Peach and Apricot

37 recipes

The Cherry

27 recipes

The Plum

41 recipes

The Grape

35 recipes

Melons

27 recipes

A Cluster of Berries

130 recipes

The Lemon

49 recipes

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Highlights

Lemon Crackers

Two cups of sugar, one each of shortening and milk, two eggs, grated rind of three lemons, and two ounces of baking ammonia, with…

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…

Plain Tapioca or Sago

Allow one-half cup tapioca or sago to one quart of cold milk. Let soak in part of the milk till softened well. Place the rest of…

Pineapple Sponge

Grate one small pine (or use one-half pint can of preserved fruit), add two-thirds cup of sugar and one-half cup of 243 water…

Grape Farina

Stew clean, stemmed grapes till soft enough to put through a sieve. Allow for each cup of this two tablespoons of farina and…

Banana Cup Cake

One cup of sugar, three of flour, one and a fourth cups of banana pulp, and two teaspoons of baking-powder. Grate orange or lemon…

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