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Papaya Pie. 
2 eggs 1 cup sugar 
1 cup papaya pulp Juice \ 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 cgffs 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. 
MEDICINAL AND OTHER USES. 
Papaya bark is used in the manufacture of ropes. Nearly all parts 
of the plant are credited with some medicinal value. The roots afford 
a nerve tonic. The seeds are said to be anthelmintic, emmenagogic, 
and carminative. They are also eaten as a delicacy and as a quencher 
of thirst. The ripe fruit finds a place as an ingredient in certain sirups 
'and elixirs, which are said to be expectorant, sedative, and tonic. 
The most important medicinal property of the plant is found in the 
milky juice. This is used by the natives of the Tropics in the treat- 
ment of eczema, warts, intestinal worms, ulcers, and many kinds of 
foul sores, in diphtheria to dissolve the false membrane in the throat, 
and for numerous other ailments. 
The ripe fruit is used as a cosmetic, a slice of it being rubbed upon 
the skin to remove freckles and other blemishes. The green fruit and 
the leaves are employed as soap to remove stains from clothing. 
Xo single use of the papaya, except for food, is so common in the 
Tropics as that of the milky juice in rendering tough meat tender. 
For this purpose a slice of the green fruit, rich in juice, is rubbed over 
the tough flesh, or the latter is dipped for a few minutes in a solution 
of the juice. 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 papaya leaves overnight, or 
even to hang it in the papaya tree. The feeding of green papayas to 
hogs is reported to make the pork tender. Some of these practices 
are of doubtful efficacy. Some writers recommend mixing ginger 
with the juice when it is to be applied to meat. 
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