Chap. 18.] 
MODE or KEEPING YAEIOUS EBTJITS. 
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keeping just like grapes, and in as many different ways ; but, 
with the exception of plums, they are the only fruit that are 
stored in casks.^^ Apples and pears have certain vinous 
properties, and like wine these drinks are forbidden to invalids by 
the physicians. These fruits are sometimes boiled up with wine 
and water, and so make a preserve that is eaten with bread ; 
a preparation which is never made of any other fruit, with the 
exception of the quinces, known as the cotoneum" and the 
strutheum." 
CHAP. 18. (16.) — THE MODE OF KEEPING VAKIOUS EEUITS AND 
GEAPES. 
For the better preserving of fruits it is universally recom- 
mended that the storeroom should be situate in a cool, dry 
spot, with a well-boarded floor, and windows looking towards 
the north ; which in fine weather ought to be kept open. Care 
should also be taken to keep out the south wind by window 
panes, 2^ while at the same time it should be borne in mind that 
a north-east wind will shrivel fruit and make it unsightly. Ap- 
ples are gathered after the autumnal equinox ; but the gather- 
ing should never begin before the sixteenth day of the moon, 
or before the first hour of the day. "Windfalls should always 
be kept separate, and there ought to be a layer of straw, or 
else mats or chaff, placed beneath. They should, also, be 
placed apart from each other, in rows, so that the air may cir- 
culate freely between them, and they may equally gain the 
benefit of it. The Amerinian apple is the best keeper, the 
melimelum the very worst of all. 
(17.) Quinces ought to be stored in a place kept perfectly 
closed, so as to exclude all draughts ; or else they should be 
boiled in honey or soaked in it. Pomegranates are made 
22 Cadis. 
23 He probably alludes here to cider and perry. See p. 300, and B. xxiii. 
c. 62. 
2* ''Pulmentarii vieem properly ''a substitute for pulmentarium," which, 
was anything eaten with bread, such as meat, vegetables, &c. He alludes 
to marmalade. The French raisine is a somewhat similar preparation 
from pears and quinces boiled in new wine. 
2^ " Specularibus/' He alludes to windows of transparent stone, lapis 
specularis, or mica ; windows of glass being probably unknown in his time. 
The ordinary windows were merely openings closed with shutters. See B. 
xxxvi. c, 45. 
26 He must allude to a kind of quince marmalade. 
