Fruits of Hawaii: description, nutritive value, and recipes

By Carey D. Miller

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006BNJPQ
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fruit in paradise....

A friend gave me this book and I felt as if I had won a jackpot! The recipes are well and concisely written and there are descriptions of each fruit at the beginning of each section. The fruits run the gamut from Acerola, which is sort of like a cherry of Spanish origin and includes others such as avocado (yes, it is a fruit!) banana, breadfruit, carambola (starfruit) coconut, grapefruit, guava, Kumquat, lychee, mango, mountain apple (also called Malay apple here), ohelo berry (which is unique to Hawaii) poha berry (which is unique here also, but originated from the New England gooseberries brought by the early missionaries), soursop and much more, all the way to even watermelon! It covers each fruit with a detailed description, history, nutritive value, vitamin and mineral contents and recipes for each. It also covers a section for supplies and equipment for preparation and preservation of the fruits. It also has sections on: Freezing Hawaii Fruits; Canning and Bottling Fruit and Fruit Juice; How to Make Jelly; Hawaii Fruits as Sources of Vitamins; Vitamin Content of Hawaii Fruits (!!) Criteria for Rating Fruits as Sources of Minerals and Vitamins approximate Measure and Calorie Value of Hawaii Fruits per Pound, as Purchased and Edible Portions And a great Bibliography for more extensive research. The previous owner must have made a recipe using soursops as that is where I found the only food stains in the whole book!!!! This book is great because it combines two of my passions in collecting cookbooks, both about the State in which I live and love so much and about tropical fruits!!!!!!! It still has it's original clear acrylic cover and its in perfect condition (except for the soursop pages, LOL).