Evaporated Bananas.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 42, 20 February 1903, Page 6 (Supplement)

Evaporated Bananas.

Evaporated bananas are to be a new delicacy In the market of the United States. Mr. Arthur F. Spawn of Baltimore, after a trip to Jamaica, has sent representatives there to erect a plant for carrying put the plan. Mr. Spawn expects t9 place his first evaporated fruit on the market this fall. Whatever may be the state of the weather, the prepared banana can reach the market in an attractive state, without being affected by the summer heat or winter chill, as is the case with fruit when forwarded in its original bunch from the plant. In a small way the evaporated fruit has been tried in Europe, to which country it is impossible to send it in the natural state. Confectioners like evaporated bananas as a base for candied fruits, and bakers can use them In a variety of ways. Bananas have been evaporated to some extent in Nicaragua, and, according to authentic information, if the plan proves successful the industry will be introduced into the banana producing districts throughout Central America, the West Indies and probably all other tropical and semitropical regions where the banana is grown.—Baltimore Sun.