p. 11 | THE VALUE OF APPLES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 25.

THE VALUE OF APPLES.

SPEAKING of apples, Professor Faraday says: "There is scarcely any article of vegetable food more widely useful and more universally liked than the apple. Let every family in autumn lay in from two to ten or more barrels, and it will be to them 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 apples. If taken freely at breakfast, with coarse bread, and without meat or flesh of any kind, they have an admirable effect on the general system, often removing constipation, correcting acidities, and cooling the febrile conditions more effectively than the most approved medicines. If families could be induced to substitute the apple—sound, ripe, and luscious—for the pies, cakes, and candies, and other sweetmeats, with which the children are too often stuffed, there would be a diminution of doctor's bills sufficient in one year to lay up a stock of this delicious fruit for a season's use.—Occident.