Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1873 — Fruit Preparation. [ARTICLE]

Fruit Preparation.

Many kinds of fruit assort well with dried apples—firet of all, canned quinces. If not cooked very tender in canning, they can be interlaid with th?.dried apple in preparing them to stew, say in equal quantities, or one-third quince. Add the sugar to the quince as it is put in, and cooked as already directed untjl tender. This improves by keeping a day or two. Dried or canned rhubarb, cherries, peaches, canned green grapes, cranberries, lemon-pulp'and raisins are also good with appteft ' Lemetbrind should- never be used, on account Jor the acrid oil. Raisins need stewing much longer than most apples. Valencias an hour in all, and Malagas and Muscatels an hour and a half. This rule it is well to remember in using raisins for any purpose. It makes them both richer and more digestible. The previous partial cooking before putting them into other dishes is called “blanching" in cookety parlance. Raisins, when thus well Cooked, make with lemons a rich and showy dish. Pare the lemons three to a pound of raisins, cut them in thin rings, and cook them with raisins for the last half hour, sweeA ening to the taste. If apples are spoiling faster than they can be used, put them up in cans already emptied of other fruit—though for most purposes they are better fresh, as, for example, in plain rice pudding. Take, for this one part washed rice and three parts apple, dressed and chopped into quarter pieces. Place a half inch layer of : the latter in the bottom of a pipkin or earthern jar, then scatter in rice, notquite enough to hide 'the apples, and so on, making them spend alike;, then pour on two part s water, or enough tb fill the mixture; cover close and bake, in a medium oven an hour and a quarter, or one hour after it begins to boil. It can be cooked on the top of the stove, but is liable to burn. Dish in saucers, and sprinkle sugar over it While het, dr dress with sweetened cream or milk; Serve fvarm. This is very but good.— sdenct of Health.