Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1888 — The Value of Apples. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Apples.

Speaking of apples, Prof. Faradaysays: “There is scarcely any article of vegetable food more widely useful ano more universally liked than the apple. Let every family in autumrf lay in from two to ten barrels, and it will be the most economical investment in the whole range of culinary supplies. A raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most healthful dessert that can be placed on the table is baked apple. If taken freely at breakfast, with coarse bread, and without meat or flesh of any kind, it has an admirable effect on the general system, often removing constipation, correcting acidities, and cooling off febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved medicines. If families could be induced to substitute the applesound, ripe and luscious—for the pies, cakes, candies, and other sweetmeats., with which childr n are too often stuffed, there would be a diminution of doctors’ bills sufficient in a single year to lay up a stock of this delicious fruit for a season’s use.