Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1893 — Frozen Fruits. [ARTICLE]

Frozen Fruits.

New York Mall and Express. A good thing ahout the banana is that it is imported nearly all the year around, and is quite as cheap in winter as it is in summer. It is especially appreciated in winter in our climate, because of the scarcity of so many other fruits. And this reminds me that my good friend Eugene Blackford, the eminent pisciculturist, once undertook at my suggestion to get some watermelons away in his refrigerator in midsummer and see how they would come out at Christmas. The day before Christmas I received a solidly frozen watermelon.' It was a refreshing sight. I left it for hours in cold water to get out the frost, and then had to chop it open with a hatcket. It was frozen solidly. The beautiful red inside was still solid and sweet, but the moment the warm air melted lit it became an insipid, mushy mass. The next year Mr. Blackford sent me for my New Year’s dinner some corn on the cob frozen. It came on the table looking as toothsome and smellingas appetizing as the hot corn of October, but it was ashes to the taste. I think this was the end of my friend’s experiments with frozen fruits and vegetables.