Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1915 — Wholesome Garlic. [ARTICLE]

Wholesome Garlic.

The odorous garlic usually frowned down upon by polite circles in this country Is not such a bad sort after all. Indeed, it seems to possess the faculty common to other strong natures of making with itself friends of the stanchest “garlic gourmets,” who have been led by easy stages first to “endure, then pity, then embrace.” From the earliest times garlic has been used as a valuable article of diet It formed no inconsiderable part of the food of the Israelites in Egypt and during their wanderings in the wilderness they wept, saying: "We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely: the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic.” The medical properties pf the gallic were regarded by those old people of the East as especially valuable as a stimulant and for stomach troubles, while to this day it is used as a remedy. As a seasoning herb, garlic is considered invaluable. *