The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1877-10-11
Edible Nuts.

Edible Nuts.
Nuts are true seeds, and differ
from fruits in having hard shells
with ont any soft or pulpy enclosure
From the earliest time nuts, especi-
ally aoorns and chestnuts, have been
used for food, and at the present
day in Southern Europe chestuuts
form q large portion of the food OF
tho lsboring cl asses, who besides
eating them raw and roasted, mako
puddings Of them and polenta for
pastry. The chestnut is the most
farinaceous and tho least oily Of all
the nuts aud therefore it is the
most easy Of digestion, but it requi.
ers boiling or roasting to burst the
starch cells and render it digestible.
Tho chestnuts OF Southern Europe
are far superior in size and perfec'
ton to those growing in colder cli>
mates. Though little used on our
tables, they make delicious desserts.
The walnut is native OF Persia,
and its fruit is much used in the
green state as o pickle. The nut is
very oily, and on the Continent its
oil, when fresh, is used in cooking
as substitute for olive oil.-In
Switzerland the poor people use The
refuse matter, after the oil is ex-
tractet, for bread. Walnuts and
hickory nuts are often used by fancy
cooks for shortening and favoring
cake the addition of these nuts
make o delicious but very indigesti'
able article.
Acorns from remote antiquity
have been used AZ food for man and
animals. The ancient Britons iv-
cd mostly on acorns, 80, says Ga
len, did the Arcadians. They are
prepared in many shapes, boiled
and roasted, dried and ground,
and made into bread. At the pres
ent time they are chiefly used for
iattening hogs, deer and poultry,
though in Norway and Sweden they
are boiled and mixed with oorn>meal
to make bread.
Hazel nuts and flberts are the
fruit Of the same tree, the former in
its wild and the latter in its culti-
vated state. These nuts are free
from oil. At dessert they are eaten
with salt.
Fresh roasted peanuts are very
agreeable in their flavor and quite
nutritious. Instead Of being MUNICH
cd between meals in all sorts ol
places, IL they were eaton at the
table AZ O part OF the meal, and
thoroughly masticated, they would
prove more wholesome.
The coooa-nut is Q product OF one
| OF the palms, and grows abundantly
| iu al tropical regions. The kernel,
in its fresh state, is very nutritive,
and when grated makes excellent
cakes and fritters. The milk OF the
coooarnut forms . delicious beverage
| in it's native country country
large nut when fresh will give 9
half pint Of milk. When it is very
young the pulp is 30 soft that II
may Be eaten with Q spoon, and the
shell is 90 soft and transparent thai
il may be used as lantern. The
oil obtained by pressure from the
kernal is used for burning in lamps
and for making fine soap. There ID
no part Of the tree but is employed
for some useful purpose, though
with respect 10 the fruit ooca-nut il
one Of the least productive Of the
palm tribe. Ono tree in good sol
produces about 100 coooa-nuts an
nually.psae =,
Sweet almonds are nutritive, bu,
difficult Of digestion. Tho brown
lhusk that surrounds the kernel IL
uuwholesome, and on account OF itt
Injurious qualities almonds sho uld
always be blanched. This is done
by only simply pouring boiling Wa
tar upon the Kernels. Bitter al
monds are poisonous 10 al GLASSES oi
animals, Though they DO not ecntsst
prussie ssid. yet, when chswed. . ohsmi
oal change 70 sfeotsd By vhioh prsss!'
aoid u formed. The essence Of bitter Oh
monds 10 . most potent poison, though
it 10 sxtsasively ssed for aavorang. ]!
the hand Of careless Or ignorant cool
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