PREFACE ix 



Facts concerning the values of fruits have been widely 

 scattered, hidden behind masses of figures or buried in 

 scientific works. Figures and scientific terms are nec- 

 essary in their places, but those included here are only as 

 matters of reference. To be vitally interested is the first 

 requisite for learning "more and more." Everyo,ne has 

 not the gift for remembering figures and names, and to be 

 so burdened is often to stop one at the outset or detract 

 seriously from interest. 



Many foundation recipes are included and explanations, 

 because this collection is meant quite as much for men who 

 are "batching it" (perhaps having their first experiences 

 in cooking where strange fruits have to be dealt with) as 

 for women who rightly believe variety to be the spice of 

 life; and I have given as far as possible just what I myself 

 would many times have valued could someone have saved 

 my having to hunt through a great many volumes for all 

 I wished to know concerning the preparation of some 

 particular fruit, or for some general formula which each 

 book usually takes for granted one already knows in exact 

 proportion. 



I have included also a few old-time recipes because of 

 their great interest, from their age, to this generation, or 

 the superior results to be obtained from their use. The 

 housekeeping of earlier centuries seems elaborate and heavy 

 by contrast with the lighter, modem methods, but life as 

 a whole was simpler then than now and in attempting to 

 improve upon the old-fashioned ways we have dropped a 

 little top much, for there were certain quaint touches of 

 housewifely care which exercised untold charm in many 

 directions. Were the old-time still-rooms in vogue to-day, 

 with their fragrant atmosphere of aromatic herbs, fruit- 

 cordials, brandies, and wines, patent medicines would find 

 few victims; the murderously adulterated liquors of 



