. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . ht its all of woe—Eat the apple! BANANAS In its native home, the banana is an important articleof diet. It is valuable as a food, containing nearly twenty-seven per cent of nutri-tive elements, being only atrifle less nutritious thanan equal weight of beef-steak. The banana is notonly good in its raw state,but is also delicious whenbaked, and makes a nour-ishing and harmless dieteven for invalids. KEEPING FRESH FRUIT 1. If the fru
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . ht its all of woe—Eat the apple! BANANAS In its native home, the banana is an important articleof diet. It is valuable as a food, containing nearly twenty-seven per cent of nutri-tive elements, being only atrifle less nutritious thanan equal weight of beef-steak. The banana is notonly good in its raw state,but is also delicious whenbaked, and makes a nour-ishing and harmless dieteven for invalids. KEEPING FRESH FRUIT 1. If the fruit is of alate variety, allow it to re-main on the tree as longas it is practicable withoutfreezing. 2. Always pick andhandle the fruit with thegreatest care. 3. Gather the fruit on a drj^ cool day, and place inheaps or bins for two or three weeks. 4. Carefully sort and pack in barrels, label, and placein a cool, dry place where the temperature will remainequable. Some consider it better to keep fruit in thinlayers upon broad shelves in a cool place. This plan allowsfrequent inspection and removal of all affected fruit with-out disturbance of the About Twenty-Seven Per CentNutriment 238 Home and Health Nothing is stronger than custom. —Ovid 5. Warmth and moisture are the conditions most favor-able to decomposition, and, therefore, should be especiallyguarded against. 6. The best temperature for keeping fruit is aboutthirty-four degrees F or two degrees above freezing. BEEAD Bread is the basis of every properly planned menu. Nomeal is complete without it. It is the staff of life. Wecan do without any article of food better than without goodbread. In nearly all countries wheat is the principal grain fromwhich bread is made. This stands at the head of the list,as it contains nearly all the food elements in the properproportion. In some countries corn and rye are much the natives in some of the islands of the tropics,a kind of bread is also made of the ca
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