Apples as Food.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 131, 2 May 1884, Page 2

Apples as Food.

Apples have always been used for dessert. Pliny tells us of twenty-two rarieties cultivated by the Romans ; now we possess over two thousand kinds. As an article of food they rank with the potato, and on account of the variety of ways they can be cooked, they are preferred by many to the potato. As a substitute for pastry they are invaluablß, feeding the brain as vvell as flesh-producing, prevent* m% constipation and acidity. A ripe, raw apple is digested m aa hour and a, half, while a boiled potato takes three hours. Sweet apples, baked or stewed, should be used instead of sour ' varities. Every meal should have apples, cooked m some form or other, and children should be allowed to eat as many as they want. Instead of using the quack nostrums and other patent medicines sold for the blood, use apples freely for food, and as far as possible m the place of potatoes, and the testimony of the medical profession goes to Drove the healthful qualities of this excellent fruit.