p. 16 | Not Beef, but Fruit by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 26, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 42.

Not Beef, but Fruit

By Editor

Not Beef, but Fruit.—It is not the scarcity of beef that brings suffering so much as the scarcity of fruit. This we know by a happy experience and wide observation of years. We are forcibly and pleasantly reminded of it by a little booklet which has come to our table, entitled "Eat California Fruit, by One of the Eaters." There are nine chapters in its thirty-two well-packed pages. It names not less than thirty-six fruits of the Golden State, many of which most of our readers never saw; it demonstrates that among the very cheapest and most nutritious foods is California fruit; not only is the fruit nutritious, but healthful and disease preventing. One of the cheapest, most healthful, and most nutritious of California fruits, and, when properly prepared, one of the most palatable, is the prune. And this little book tells you, in about fifty recipes, how to prepare fruits in all sorts of ways. Fourteen of these are prune preparations; sixteen raisin, and the rest other kinds of fruit, such as peaches, apples, plums, grapes, apricots, pears, figs, olives, dates, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, guavas. The strictly temperate hygienist would not care to use all these recipes, but there is abundance for all classes. Two of the fruits named are not one-tenth appreciated at their true worth, namely, prunes and raisins. Too often the experience of the Eastern consumer has been gained by inferior grades of both of these fruits shipped from Europe, and we opine many Californians hold to their old-time prejudices. The author tells his readers that if they had eaten a pound and a half of California fruit each day, they "would have saved money; California fruit is the cheapest food you can buy." The author continues: "You doubt this? Investigate. Ask your grocer for California cured fruits. Ask prices of oranges, prunes, raisins. Compare with other foods. If you think you have me cornered, send proof to Charles S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager, Southern Pacific, San Francisco, who will act as referee. If decision is against me, you will receive a sample box of California fruit free, and your market will be better stocked hereafter." The Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, Cal., has done the world a service in publishing this little booklet. Send for a copy. It will not only benefit Eastern people, but Californians as well.