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"This method of servhii;" the dasheen will be found particularly 

 well adapted for banquets and formal dinners, but in such case 

 individual baking dishes or casseroles should be used. 



"The above recipe may be varied by using less butter and adding 

 grated cheese. Pepper may also be used in seasoning if desired. 

 Cold boiled instead of raw dasheens may also be utilized in these 

 recipes." 



KALO FOR STARCH. 



Kalo is not suitable for the manufacture of starch, for the 

 grains are very small, being only 1/25,000 to 3/25,000 of an inch 

 in diameter. The small size of the starch grains prevents their 

 rapid settling in water, in which the grated corm has been put, so 

 viscid that the starch grains will not settle. The manufacturing 

 value of a starch depends, of course, largely upon this ability to 

 settle in water. 



The ancient Hawaiians used the kalo for a variety of purposes, 

 in addition to its fundamental use as food. Kalo was used as a 

 medicinal agent ; was an important accessory in many of the 

 kahuna practices; and a number of the varieties were especially 

 suitable for offerings to the gods or auiuakua. 



KALO ]'OR MEDICINE. 



The medicine or apii was used for various jnilmonary disor- 

 ders. Apii refers ])rimarily to the cup fashioned from a well- 

 rii)ened coconut shell cut longitutlinally, used for drinking awa and 

 other unpleasant liquids, but not employed for ordinary drinking- 

 water. Apn, the medicine drunk from such a cup, was prepared 

 as follows: A kalo corm is used preferably of the variety called 

 kalo-lan-loa-hauUuU. This is much less acrid to the taste when 

 raw than other varieties of kalo. Other varieties having a sim- 

 ilar characteristic are used. The corm was grated by scraping 

 off portions with an opihi, limpet shell. To this was added 

 grated coconut, and the pasty mass was well mixed with some 

 water and strained in the same manner as awa. The strainer 

 used was the dry fiber of the ahii awa. 



The pulpy mass was enclosed in this fiber and the li(|uid for- 

 cibly wrung out. The refuse was shaken out of the fibers of 

 ahu awa, which were now arranged in the shape of a funnel. ( )n 

 being poured through this strainer thtis adjusted, the li(|ui(l came 

 out quite clear. 



Seeds from the pilikai (Agregia tilaefolia? Ipomea Tur])en- 

 thum?) were finely pulverized and mixed with a ])ortion of the 

 liquid in the proportion of about a teaspoonful to a tumblerful of 

 the liquid. 



For four successive mornings the ])atient takes a cup. apii, of 

 the liquid without the pilikai, and on the fifth morning a cup of 



