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palatable and equal in every respect to the usual white bread, excepting possibly in the matter 

 of appearance. 



The following is the recipe recommended by the Medical Department of the Company for 

 making the so-called "Banana Bread": 



Keep the banana immersed in water wliile peeling, to prevent discoloration. 

 Use silver knife on bananas, for the same reason as above. 

 Boil bananas in salt water imtil thoroughly cooked. 



After cooking, mash thoroughly and stir into dough slowly while kneading. 

 Green bananas should be used- — preferably full ones just about to turn. 

 Proportion one pound of mashed bananas as above to three pounds of flour dough, 

 viz.: mashed bananas, 25% of bread, flour dough, 75% of bread. 



Yucca Roots. 



The United Fruit Company has been experimenting in some of its tropical divisions with 

 a mixture of fifty per cent (509c) wheat flour and fifty per (£0%) yucca flour, which makes an 

 extremely acceptable susbstitute for all-wheat floiu'. The recipe for this is as follows: 



Peel the yucca, grate it, add enough water to make a paste, afterwards mashing it in order 

 to get rid of some of the starch (about 20 %) . Let this mixture dry a little and then pass through 

 the mill. This should give a fine yucca flour which is then ready to mix with wheat flour. A 

 50% mixture gives an excellent bread. If at least 20% of the starch is not gotten rid of the bread 

 will shrink. 



THE MAPLE SUGAR SEASON 



A better than average production of majile 

 sugar and syrup in the United States in 1918 

 is indicated by a tabulation of results ])re- 

 sented by the Department of Agriculture 

 in its monthly crop report for May. While 

 no figures of actual production are given, 

 the number of trees tapped is reported as 



9.6 per^^cent more than in the season of 1917, 

 and both the average yield per tree and the 

 quality of the product are rated higher than 

 last year. The average yield per tree was 

 equivalent to 2.81 pounds of sugar, as com- 

 pared with 2.66 pounds for the season of 1917. 

 It is estimated that 28 per cent of this 

 year's output was made into sugar and 72 

 per cent into syrup. 



