THE CHINESE JUJUBE. 
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modified to meet the requirements of persons using them. They are 
offered chiefly as suggestions. 
JUJUBE CONFECTION. 
The fruit of the jujube has been used more extensively in this 
country as a confection than for any other purpose. It is also used 
in this way in China (10), where it is esteemed highly as a gift. To 
prepare the fruit as a confection it is necessary to cook it in sirup. 
The fruit should be punctured or cut in some way before it is put 
into the sirup. The Chinese score or cut through the skin by using a 
bundle of small knives. (Fig. 6.) The surface of the entire fruit 
is scored with this instrument. This permits the sirup to penetrate 
and gives a plump, attractive appearance to the finished product. 
(Fig. 7.) 
Fig. 
-Processed jujube fruits, several varieties. Those on the left have been pricked, 
those on the right scored before processing. 
An instrument somewhat similar to this can be made by the use 
of safety-razor blades. (Fig. 6.) Take an ordinary vegetable knife 
and with a hack saw shorten the blade to the length of the razor 
blades to be used. Two small stove bolts, suited to the size of the 
holes in the blades, can be used to hold the blades in position, after 
drilling through the blade of the knife two holes of the same size and 
suitably placed. Small pieces of heavy cardboard about one-eighth 
of an inch smaller in each direction than the razor blades, with holes 
punched in them of the same size and the same distance apart as 
those just mentioned, are used to separate the razor blades. A suffi- 
cient number are to be used to keep the blades about one-sixteenth 
of an inch apart. 
An instrument such as this will answer very well for this work, 
but where the quantity of fruit is too large to be taken care of in 
this way, or where one does not care to go to the trouble of mak- 
ing such an instrument, various methods of puncturing the fruit 
