. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., Aliments, or Foods Peopeb 63. Salad or Bweel Oil—Preserved Olives—The Date—The Apple. fruit is rather bitterish. The pulp is replete with a bland oil,called also salad or sweet oil, for
. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., Aliments, or Foods Peopeb 63. Salad or Bweel Oil—Preserved Olives—The Date—The Apple. fruit is rather bitterish. The pulp is replete with a bland oil,called also salad or sweet oil, for the Fig. 39. production of which the olive is ex-tensively cultivated. In Britain, Italy,Spain, Portugal, and the Grecian isl-ands, it is much employed as a culi-nary article in place of butter, and itis certainly a more wholesome article,either as a seasoning or food. Pre-served or pickled dives are greatlyadmired by many persons as a di-gester, but, like all other pickled 0UT B!tA*cu AMD ,Bm-commodities, are fruitful sources of indigestion. The Date {Phoenix dactylifera) forms a principal article offood for the inhabitants of many parts of Egypt, Arabia, andPersia. The fruit is extremely sweet, and very Arabs reduce dried dates to a kind of meal of which date-bread is made, and on which alone they subsist during longjourneys. A single date tree, which is a species of palm, willbear from one to three hundred p
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