116 FKUITS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 



Quince Honey.— (For Griddle Cakes.) Make a syrup 

 of two pints and a half of pulverized sugar and a scant pini 

 of water and let it boil ten minutes. Then add two quinces 

 peeled and grated, and boil ten minutes longer. 



THE EAISIN. 



That dried fruit of sweet grapes known as tbe raisin is 

 an important minor adjunct of the caisine. Formerly 

 raisins were brought only from Sicily, Turkey, Calabria 

 and Spain, buttherapiddevelopmeat of the raisin industry 

 on the Pacific cciast is a matter of surprise to all interested 

 in the culture of fruit. The domestic raisin, it is now ad- 

 mitted, is cheaper than the foreign, while also in every way 

 fresher and better. 



The white Muscat grape of Alexandria is the principal 

 ■variety used ia California. The slips are set out in a 

 sandy soil and the vines, though staked at first, are trained 

 so as to dispense with support and protect the fruit from 

 the direct rays of "the sun. The stem grows no more than 

 a ya'rd ia height, and underneath the lateral branches hang 

 heavy bunches of green translucent fruit. 



The first crop matures about the middle of August, the 

 eecoud ripens a month later. Three years after planting 

 the vinea begin to bear, but it takes three yfears in addition 

 to bring them to full maturity. As the grapes ripen 

 Chinei-e laborers cut off the branches and lay them in 

 wooden trays measuring five feet square and three inches 

 deep. These are exposed to the sun in which the fruit 

 begins almost immediately to ferment. At the end of 

 from ten to fourteen days the upper half of the grapes 

 having changed to a deep purple under the chemical rays 



