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they are baked or stewed ; and it can not be denied that 

 they furnish one of the most wholesome and agreeable 

 kinds of diet. Although raw, stewed, or baked apples may 

 be pronounced excellent and delicious, still there are many 

 kinds, when fried, which are super - excellent ; and they 

 who seldom meet with a dish of fried apples often wonder 

 why they are 'not always fried instead of baked. When 

 apples are baked, they often burst open, and much of the 

 best part flows out as juice, and is lost. But when they 

 are fried, the whole is saved. In our own family we con- 

 sume five or six barrels of apples before one barrel of Irish 

 potatoes is gone. Many persons who do not care to eat 

 more than one or two crude apples per day, will often eat 

 six or eight when they are fried. Dr. Hall has stated, in 

 his " Journal of Health," that, in order to derive a more 

 decided medicinal effect, fruits should be largely eaten soon 

 after rising in the morning, and about midway between 

 breakfast and dinner. 



Good ripe apples constitute a cooling diet. The philo- 

 sophical reason for this is, the acid of the fruit stimulates 

 the liver to greater activity in separating the bile from the 

 blood, which is its proper work, the result of which is, the 

 bowels become free, and the pores of the skin are open. 

 Under such circumstances, fevers and want of appetite are 

 impossible. The appetite frequently yearns for a pickle, 

 when nothing else could be relished. This is often the 

 case in the experience of most of us. It is the instinct of 

 nature pointing to a cure. The want of a natural appetite 

 is the result of the bile not being separated from the 

 blood ; and if not remedied, fever is inevitable, from the 

 slightest grades to that of bilious, congestive, and yellow 

 fever. But those persons who eat large quantities of 

 crude or cooked apples are never troubled with constipa- 

 tion or biliousness. An incalculable amount of sickness 



