The banana : its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses / by William Fawcett, with an introduction by Sir Daniel Morris. Pub. under the auspices of the West India committee.

  • William Fawcett
Date:
1913
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Credit: The banana : its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses / by William Fawcett, with an introduction by Sir Daniel Morris. Pub. under the auspices of the West India committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the hand, else the sugar will be carmelized, and the core of the fruit blackened and rendered bitterish. Tight close packing in drums under considerable pressure, as with figs, would no doubt contribute materially to the preservation of dried ripe plantains and bananas.” Plantain Meal.—^^ The plantain is sometimes so abundant and cheap that it might, if cut and dried in its green state, be exported with advantage. It is in this unripe state that It is so largely used by the peasantry of this colony as an article of food. It has always been believed to be highly nutritive ; but I have not found in any sample of the dried plantain which I have analysed a larger amount than -81 per cent, of nitrogen, which corresponds with about 51 per cent, of protein compounds. When dried and reduced to the state of meal, it cannot, like wheat flour, be manufactured mfdeToTn least the maccaroni made from it falls to powder when put into hot water Plantain meal is prepared by stripping off the husk of the plantain, slicing the core, and drying it in the sun When thoroughly dry, it is powdered and sifted Itjs known among the creoles of the colony under the name of conqmntay. It has a fragrant odour, acquired in drying, somewhat resembling fresh hay or tea It is ^gely employed as the food of infants and intSds In freshest wer^thf S“anl1 T'f tvom of thf'’''?? ““ be^orirCoT'xS which the slice”are driS'^h* rapidity with for iy weather, unless Indeed! wLTth!r™^^^^ for It, recourse were had to a kiln or stole An plantain must not be allowed te V Above all, the yellowness or ripeness otherwise closely to dry it. The colour of m i • impossible to are used in the husking or slidng bXif do not injure the colour. Full-si;ed and wXfllledtnlS
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