The Goodly Guava


 Guava Ice Box Cake
 1 tbsp. gelatin 1/s tsp. salt
 VY cup cold water 1 cup guava pulp
 V4 cup boiling water 1 cup crushed pineapple
 3 tbsp. lemon juice 1 cup whipped cream
 Ladyfingers 3 egg whites
 1 cup sugar
 Soak gelatin in cold water and dissolve in boiling water. Add
sugar and salt, then lemon juice, guava pulp, and crushed pine-
apple. Mix thoroughly; place in refrigerator until partly con-
gealed, then beat with wire whip and fold in whites of eggs, beaten
stiff. Have a straight-sided dish lined with ladyfingers or sponge
cake. Add mixture; chill thoroughly, 4-6 hours. To serve, un-
mold cake on large plate and garnish with whipped cream, pine-
apple chunks and guava slices. Or sprinkle with crumbled lady-
fingers or freshly grated coconut, and serve at once.
 Thinly sliced ripe rose apple,' carissa, pineapple, banana or
other tropical fruit in season may be substituted for the crushed
pineapple.
 pineapple. Paradise Pie
 1% Zweiback, Graham crackers % cup sugar
 or Melba toast crumbs % cup butter
 % cup chopped nuts
 Roll zweiback or put through food chopper. Mix crumbs, nut
meats, sugar and melted butter. Reserve 1/2 cup of mixture for
top. Spread remainder of mixture carefully in bottom and sides
of deep pie plate, using additional butter if crumbs do not adhere
easily, and bake in a slow oven 10 minutes.
 For filling, use:
 2 cups guava pulp 3 egg whites
 Confectioners' sugar to taste 1 tsp. lemon or lime juice
 Beat egg whites until stiff and dry. Add guava pulp and lemon
juice. Sweeten to taste and blend thoroughly. Just before serv-
ing cover with sweetened whipped cream. Sprinkle with re-
mainder of crumbs, or dot with guava jelly and nut meats. If
cut when cold, will come out nicely.
 Guava Ice Cream
 Use any foundation cream recipe. Add pulp of the guavas-with
 seeds removed-as you would peach, strawberry or other fruit
 pulp. One method follows:
 3 cups guava pulp 2 cups sugar
 1 pt. cream 2 tbsp. lemon juice
 1 pt. milk
 To the guava pulp, add the sugar and lemon juice. Scald the
 milk and combine carefully with the fruit mixture. Add cream

 'The rose-apple (Eugenia Jambos) is esteemed as an interesting orna-
 mental. The fruit is crisp, juicy and sweet and is perfumed like a rose.