54 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
artificial diabetes in animals to whom it is given ; wherefore this 
same glucoside is to be commended remedially in human diabetes 
when coming on from spontaneous causes. 
A nice way of cooking Apples, as practised at the Cape, is 
to “ wipe the apples, but do not peel them; core, quarter, and 
cut into slices. Have ready some syrup (made in the propor- 
tion of one pound of sugar to a pint of water) boiled quickly 
for five minutes, using either moist, or crystallized sugar; throw 
the apples into the boiling syrup, and boil rapidly for one hour, 
stirring frequently. The juice should then be clear, and jellied, 
and stiff, since the watery parts have been driven off in steam 
by the rapid boiling. Allow one pound of sugar to six fair-sized 
apples. Cloves, cinnamon, or lemon-peel may be added accord- 
ing to taste.” 
The love of Apple pie is as strong in New as in old England, 
folks being partial in the former to a combination of cheese 
therewith. §. T. Coleridge is reported to have said that a man 
could not have a pure mind who refused to eat Apple dumplings. 
“ Thy breath,” exclaims a swain of the Elizabethan times to 
his lady-love, ‘‘is like the steame of apple pyes.” Sydney 
_ Smith, when writing to Lady Holland, September, 1829, tells 
concerning Mr. Lutrell: ‘‘ He came over for a day, from whence 
I know not, but I thought not from good pastures ; at least he 
had not his usual soup and pattie look; there was a forced 
smile upon his countenance which seemed to indicate plain 
roast, and boiled, and a sort of apple-pudding depression, as if 
he had been staying with a clergyman.” 
For a meal to satisfy hunger when the supplies are short, many 
prescriptions have been given, from Franklin’s famous mess of 
gruel with bread crumbled into it, so as to amplify the food, and 
make it filling at the price, down to the “ cheap living ” recipe 
of an American writer, who has advised his readers to “ first eat 
two cents worth of dried Apples, and afterwards drink a quart 
of water to swell them out as a bellyful.”’ 
Pippins are Apples which have been raised from pips. Con- 
cerning Lincolnshire pippins, wrote Fuller in his Book of Worthies 
(1642): “ With these we will close the stomach of the reader, 
being concluded most cordial by physicians. Some conceive 
them not above a hundred years seniority in England. However, 
they thrive best, and prove best in this county of Lincoln, 
and particularly about Kirton, whence they have acquired 
