The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-08
Journey Around the Taploca Pudding.

| DR.. Bushwhacker folded his napkin. drew Il
through the silver ring. laid il the table, folded
| his arms, and leaned back in his chair, by which
we know there something at work IN hs.
know ge. box. My dear madam said he.
with Metamora shake of the head, 'there are n
great many things TO be said about that pudding.
My dear madam" he continued, take taPioca IT.
| sell !; what is il, and where does 1t come from i
Our eldest boy just emerging from chickenhood.
answered S5 Chambers street, two doors below
The Irving House.
| True my dear young friend,' responded tho
Doctor with friendly pat on the head i; but that
is not what mean. Where he repeated, with
questioning look through his spectacles, and q
Bushwhackan nod, does tapioca come fromT
| Rio de JaneIro and Para /
and arn sin il NE gqB Rq De 5anero 10 the southern
we gel our tapioca from the roots called Tnd
| Mandioca, 5otancally, the JatyophG MGnthoe, or,
as they says the Cassava. The roots are long
and round, like sweet potato; generally loot
or more in length Every joint of the plant wilt
produce its roots like the cuttings OF grapevine.
The tubers are dug up from the ground, peeled.
or grated, then put long sacks OF flexible rattan;
| sacks six feet long or more, and at the bottom OF
the sack they suspend large stone, by which tho
flexible sides are contracted, and then out pours
the cassava juice in pan placed below TO receive
| it. This JUICE Is poisonous, and very VoIaue-N
| Then, my dear madam, it is macerated in water.
on is evaporated, is the innocuOus iarlna, which
looks like small crumbs of bread, and which we
call apioca. The best kind Of tapoca comes from
RIO, hich is, believe, about five hundred mics
from New York; we must put down that as a
little more than one fifth Of our voyage around the
pudding 81
This made our eldest open his eyes
Eggs and milk continued DR.. Bushwackcr
are home productions; bot sugar, refined sugar.
is ma de partly OF the sweet yellow sugar OF Lou
isiana partly OF the hard and dry sugar OF the
West indies | will not go into the process ot
refining sugar now, but may observed here that
the sugar get from Louisiana, II refined and
made into 4oai, would be quite soft, with large
loose crystals while the Havana sugar, subjected
to the same treatment would make white cone
almost as compact and hard granite But We
have made a trip to The Antilles for our sugar, anu
so you may add fifteen hundred miles more foe
The saccharne.' ...
That is equal 10 nearly one.third Of the crcum-
ference of the pudding we live upon, Doctor.
Vanilla continued the Doctor, with which
Of Sna that grows via X tns
es,s of Venezuela, New Granada, Guna, and, IN
. fact, throughout South America. The long pod
), which looks like the scabbard oil sword, sugges'
- ted the name 10 The Spaniards; Vayna meaning
- scabbard, from which comes the dmlnulIVe van
- lila, or little scabbard-apProprate enough as eve
. nv one will allow. The beans, which are worth
=. here from six 10 twenty dollars pound could be-
:, as easily cultivated. as hops in that climate but
the Incidence of the people is so great that not onS
Venczue Ian has been found with sufficient enier-
J. prise to set vanilla, which would yied
y him small fortune eve,y year. No, sir Th"
poor peon or peasonts, raise their garabanzas Tor
: dalv use but beyond they never look. They.
! plant their crops in The footsteps of the ancestors
10 they wouId probably have browsed on the Wild
D. grass of The IIanose plains. All F! there arc
! great many such bobs hanging at the tail OF some
:" ancestral kite, in this great city, my desr'
- learned friends p" s>aa
d True, Doctor, you right there"
he "Well, sir, the vanilla is gathered from the wild
8. vines in the woods. Off goes The hdalgo, proud
III of his noble ancestry sand tolls home under back
load of the refuse beans from the trees, after tho
N red monkey has had his pick OF the beast. A te"
d reals pay him for the days work, and then, they
is Tor The cock. pit There, Sgnor OldIogie meets
re MARQUIS de ShinpIasrer, or the Padre CorcorocbI
re and OF course gets isled Of his earnings with
n The first click OF the gas. Then back he goes To
Ie his miserable hammock, and ends his year .
RS labor That, sir. is the history of The faVoring.
i. and you will have 10 allow a strrtch across the
" Carribpan, and five hundred miles Tor tho
e. vanilla"
,e I'VE are getty pretty we'll around, Doctor"
er Then we have sauce, here, wine-sacej Ten.
a eriffe, should say, by the Gavor."
o: from beneath the cliff
D. OF sunny side Tenorife,
r. And ripcned III the blink
j? fIndia's SUM-"
We must take four thousand miles at least Tor
is The wine, my learned lrind and say nothing OF the
III rest OF the sauce. ..
rs Except the nutmeg, Doctor"
eS "Thank you my dear young friend, thank you.
s. The nutmeg! To Spice Islands, in the Indian
it, Ocean, We are indebted for our nutmegs. Our
r. old original nickerbockers The web footed Dutch
men, have the monopoly Of this trade. Every nut
meg has paid toll a. the Hague before il yields its
he aroma to our graers. The Spice Islands The
a almost fabulous MoIuccas, where neither corn nor
in rice will grow, where the only quadruPsds they
IN, have are the musky crocodes that baIhe 10 tho
e. high seasoned waters The Moiuccas,
go "-- the isles
d. OF Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring
ze Their spicy drugs"
~ "There, sir Milton, sir ! From Ternas and
oi- Tldore and the Of that marvellous cluster o
90 islands, get our nuimegs, our mace, ana oui
on cloves. Add twelve thousand miles at least &c
les the circumference Of the pudding 10 the nutmeg
This getting TO be pretty large pudding
Doctor" -
"Yes, sir We have Travelled, already, twenty
,i five thousand FIVE hundred miles around il, 0nd
~. nov let US re.circumnaSigate and come hff1 BY