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. 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., ly employed asa desert, and in flavoring cakes and puddings. Bitter Almonds arc always poisonous. They yield bothvolatile oil and prussic acid when distilled with water, butcontain neith
. 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., ly employed asa desert, and in flavoring cakes and puddings. Bitter Almonds arc always poisonous. They yield bothvolatile oil and prussic acid when distilled with water, butcontain neither in the natural state; another evidence thatelements unknown among the constituents of organic sub-stance may be formed in the different stages of their decom-position. Prussic acid is also formed in the mouth when thealmonds are chewed. As a flavoring article, these poisonousseeds are extensively employed by cooks and confectioners. The Walnut (Liglausliegia) is a native of the East. Thesap of the tree is sweet, and sugar has been made from seeds abound in oil, and in some countries are gratedinto tarts and puddings. Walnut oil has been employed as asubstitute for olive oil in cooking, also in the manufactureof soap. An extract from the green leaves makes a permanentbrown dye, which is said to be used by the gipsies to give adark color to the children they steal. 58 Hydropathic Cook-Book. CASHEW NUT. Hazel, Cocoa, Pea, Brazil Note—Filberts—Pistachio and Madeira-Nuts. The Hazel nut is the wild, and the Filbert the cultivatedstate of the same tree (Corylus avellana). They contain butlittle oil. The differen . varieties of filberts in our marketsare the Spanish nut, cob-nut, red filbert, and white Cashew nut (Anacordium Occidental) is a productionFig. 81. of tropical climates. The nut (fig. 30), somewhat resembles the walnut, andhas an agreeable and mildly acid kernel is contained in two shells,between which is a thick rust-coloredliquor, h
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