Curiosities of Plant Life

The most valuable of the Bread-fruit trees was discovered by Captain Cook, on the

Island of Otaheite, whence it was disseminated through Oceanica, and among all the
colonies of England in the tropics, by the hand of the unfortunate Captain Bligh of the Bounty.
... Wallace, the explorer of the Malay Archipelago, describes as a real luxury the bread furnished
by this remarkable tree. … The fruit is baked entire, he says, in hot embers, and the inside scooped
out with a spoon. "I compared it to York-shire pudding; … We sometimes made a curry or stew of
it, or fried it in slices; but it is no way so good as simply baked. It may be eaten sweet or savory.
With meat and gravy it is a vegetable superior to any I know, either in temperate or tropical countries.
With sugar, milk, butter, or treacle, it is a delicious pudding, having a very slight but characteristic
flavor, which, like that of good bread, one never tired of.

JAMES RICHARDSON - CURIOSITIES OF PLANT LIFE -


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