INTKODUUTION. 



FRUIT AS FOOD. 



In that future toward which the eyes of both Eealists and 

 Idealists are now directed more eagerly than at any pre- 

 ceding period, there can be no doabt that all things will 

 be noted nearer their true worth than they aie to-day. In 

 cooking especially ,~ many compounds now in vogue will 

 sink into disuse, but their places will be filled with foods 

 which are pleasant to the eye, delicious to the taste and 

 yet easy to prepare. In all departments of t he household 

 that beautiful and harmonious simplicity which is evidence 

 of the highest culture, must prevail, and it will be found 

 that a simple, wholesome and appetizing dietary, one 

 which can be prepared with ease and served with elegance, 

 is that one in which Fruits will play a most important 

 pait. 



The value of Fruits as Food is far from being generally 

 understood. Grown in every quarter of the globe, 

 ripening in succession from early spring till winter, fra- 

 grant, tootts me and pire. the fruits and their more solid 

 cousins, the grains, afford e\eij element needed for the 

 norishment of the human frame. True, these elements 

 are never found in a form as concentrated as in the flesh 

 of animals, and herein lies one mark of their superiority. 



