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They keep well if care- fully packed when dry, and ought to form a valuable antiscorbutic for long voyages. The fruit may also be similarly preserved whole by stripping ofT the skin and drying it in the sun. Plantain meal is prepared by stripping off the husk and reducing it to powder, and finely sifting. It is calculated that the fresh core will yield 40 per cent, of this meal, and that an acre of average quality will yield over a ton. Plantain meal is of a slightly brownish color, and has an ...agreeable odor, which becomes more perceptible when warm water is poured upon it, and has a considerable re- semblance to that of orris root. When mixed with cold water it forms a feebly tenacious dough, more adhesive than that of oatmeal, but much less so than that of 30 USEFUL FOR MANY OTHER THINGS wheaten flour. When baked on a hot plate this dough forms a cake which is agreeable to the sense of smell, and is by no means unpleasant to the taste. When boiling water is poured over the meal it is changed into a trans- parent jelly, having an agreeable taste and smell.
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