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46 FBUITS- IN THEIR SEASON.
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
-which had been invited to make their homes in them , and which , if suffered to mature into wormswould injure the fruit even more
seriously than the oven . The , white fig's , being" preferred in commerce , are set apart for sale , and tne purple varieties kept for use at
home ; and , in most places where they are plentiful , they form the of princi the pal part . It of is the in food this of dried the poorer formtoo classes that during the * fi a great which portion when year
fresh finds but few admirers in Eng , land , is most familiar g , to us h forming y the - fact a favorite of our . dish imports at the princi wint pall er y dessert sent , from , . as is Turkey sufficientl amounting y'proved , ¦
a few years ago to twenty , thousand hundredweights , , though the * duty then imposed amounted to a _guinea per hundredweight , or
rather more than one hundred _jDer cent , addition to the price of figs in bond . It was prophesied . by M'Culloehthat were this duty
therefore reduced , the to be import _exjoected would that soon the be recent more revision than , tri of p the led , tariff and it will is
have a great effect upon this branch of the revenue . being But shared the indifference by the nations of the of British the Continent public to fresh and throug figs is hout far from the
South of Europe they are eaten with avidity b , y all classes , and are constantly brought to table during * five months of the year , not only
at the dessert , but , in some places , forming part of the dinner as well , being * introduced along * with the melon after soup , showing a
taste in accordance with that of the ancients , among whom , as Soyer vinegar informs , us and , fig some _-s were aromatics served . at aristocratic The same great tables culinary with salt authorit , pepper ,
also observes , that the Greek love for this fruit amounted to a sort y of gastronomic furor which knew no bounds ; and that the wise
Plato himself ceased to be a _iDhilosopher when presented with a basket of figs ; while that they were not a " caviare" _| _3
reciated by " the _multitude , " is shown by Cato's recommendation unap to employers to diminish the amount of food supplied to agricultural
be laborers given whenever them , they ripe would figs be were sure in to season take , their as wh share atever of else this mi fruit ght .
To descend from Plato to the poultry-yard , Bosc affirms that all and birds , indeed and beasts , with h regard ave a passion to domestic for figs fowls , whether the taste fresh of or the dried fruit ;
would seem to have a like effect upon them to , that which the taste of human blood is said to have upon the lion ; for if once they have
been suffered to fly upon a fig-tree and help themselves to its producethe only waysays heto prevent their attacking the trees
, , , again , is to kill them . But the most delicious form in which the B . g can possibly be partaken ofis when it becomes animatedfor
though a feathered flying fi g may , seem a rather startling notion , it is , neverthelessa fact realized to the great felicity of gourmands , in
Viellot the BecafLco as " like , a , mere a small animal lump assimilation of light fat , of savory the jftcus , m , elting described , easy , by of
digestion , and , in truth , an extract of the juice from the delicious
46 Fbuits- In Their Season.
46 FBUITS- IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/46/
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