310 FRUIT RECIPES 



as a valued drink in fevers. The tamarind perhaps 'may 

 be likened to the lemon and also somewhat to the grape. 

 It has a good percentage of bifartrate of potassa, its other 

 components (besides the acids) being gum, pectin, water, 

 and pulpy matter. 



The Bread Fruit Tree (Artocarpus incisa, or A. com- 

 munis) bears for eight months in succession its generous 

 balls of pulp which are so useful as a food to so many 

 tropical peoples. It is prepared in various ways for eating, 

 one of the most common methods being to bake it with a 

 bit of fat meat in the centre of the fruit. It tastes 

 something like potato as well as somewhat resembling 

 bread. 



