y 2 box gelatin 
% cup cold water 
Juice 1 lemon 
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PAPAYA-FLAVORED GELATIN DESSERT 
1 cup boiling water 
1 cup papaya pulp 
% cup sugar 
Soak gelatin in cold water five minutes. Dissolve the sugar in the boiling 
water ; add the gelatin and strain. When cool, add the papaya and lemon 
juice. Place on ice to harden. 
PAPAYA AND GINGER 
Make a sirup of 1 measure sugar, y 2 measure water, some finely sliced dried 
ginger, and a few slices of lemon. Add 2 measures half-ripe papaya sliced length- 
wise, which has been previously simmered in water until clear but not broken. 
PAPAYA PIE 
2 eggs 1 cup sugar 
1 cup papaya pulp Juice x / 2 lemon 
% cup butter 
Make a bottom pie crust and bake. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten 
eggs, lemon juice, and papaya. Pour into pie crust and bake. Make a meringue 
of whites of eggs and 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. Place on pie and brown in oven. 
PAPAYA SHERBET 
Mix 4 cups papaya pulp with 2 cups sugar and juice of 2 lemons and freeze. 
STEWED PAPAYA NO. 1 
2 cups diced papaya % cup water 
% cup sugar Juice of 2 lemons 
Cut papaya in dice and stew with sugar, water, and lemon juice V 2 hour. 
Serve in sherbet glasses as a first course for luncheon or a dessert. Can use 
4 oranges in place of lemons. 
STEWED PAPAYA NO. 2 
Cook in the same manner as No. 1, with % cup sugar and only enough water 
to keep from burning. Serve as vegetable. 
BAKED PAPAYA 
Cut papaya in halves lengthwise. Add a little sugar and orange, lime, or 
lemon juice, or a little cinnamon in place of the juice. Bake 20 minutes and 
serve immediately on taking from the oven. This is a vegetable. 
MEDICINAL AND OTHER USES 
Nearly all parts of the papaya plant are said to have some medici- 
nal value. The most important medicinal properties are found in 
the milky juice, which occurs most abundantly in the green fruit. 
Most of the medicinal properties of the juice are due to the active 
principle called " papain." This enzyme greatly resembles animal 
pepsin in its digestive action and has been recognized as of consid- 
erable " value as a remedy in dyspepsia and kindred ailments " (16, 
p. 229). The digestive action of this enzyme has long been recog- 
nized in the Tropics, where it is not an uncommon practice to rub 
a slice of green juicy papaya on tough meat to make it tender. 
Sometimes a piece of the green fruit is put in the water in which the 
meat is boiled. Another practice is to wrap the meat in crushed 
papaya leaves overnight preparatory to cooking it. 
