 | 1825 - 424 pages
...19.445. The Tartars in the spring, when the sap is rising, pierce the walnut-trees, and put in a spigot for some time. When this is withdrawn, a clear sweet liquor flows out, which, when coagulated, they use as sugar. In an abbey of Italian Benedictines, there has recently been found... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Missionaries - 1829 - 252 pages
...walnut-trees. The Tahtars in the spring, when the sap is rising, pierce the walnut-trees, and put in a spigot for some time. When this is withdrawn, a clear sweet liquor flows out, which, when coagulated, they use as sugar. In different places we saw a few cypress-trees, growing in the... | |
 | John Lindley - Botany, Medical - 1838 - 686 pages
...Circassia the tree is pierced in the spring and a spigot left for some time in the hole. When the spigot is withdrawn a clear sweet liquor flows out, which...coagulate ; and on some occasions they refine it. The Circassians consider it a most valuable medicine for diseases of the lungs and general debility.... | |
 | John Lindley - 1838 - 706 pages
...Circassia the tree is pierced in the spring and a spigot left for some time in the hole. When the spigot is withdrawn a clear sweet liquor flows out, which...coagulate ; and on some occasions they refine it. The Circassians consider it a most valuable medicine for diseases of the lungs and general debility.... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - Botany, Medical - 1842 - 578 pages
...purpose. In Circassia, the tree is pierced in the spring, and a spigot is left for some time in the hole: when this is withdrawn, a clear sweet liquor flows out, which is considered by the Circassians as a valuable remedy for diseases of the lungs. * * Walnuts are subject... | |
 | 1844 - 498 pages
...walnut-trees. The Tartars, in sprint;, when the sap is rising, pierce the walnut-tree, and put in a spigot for some time ; when this is withdrawn, a clear, sweet liquor flows out, which when coagulated they eat as sugar." Dyers formerly employed the roots of the tree and the husks of... | |
 | Sarah Lee - Floriculture - 1854 - 542 pages
...Caucasus the tree is pierced in the spring, a spigot left in the hole for a short time, and when it is withdrawn, a clear, sweet liquor flows out, which is left to coagulate. It is then refined, and thought to be good for diseases of the lungs. Very young walnuts, bruised and... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1861 - 434 pages
...a similar process to that from the maple, pursued in obtaining Caucasian sugar. " Here," says he, " I was made acquainted with their manner of procuring...becomes quite white, is another substitute for sugar. The Arabs in Eastern Africa make honey-sugar ; the material, after being strained and cleaned, is stored... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1861 - 468 pages
...a similar process to that from the maple, pursued in obtaining Caucasian sugar. " Here," says he, " I was made acquainted with their manner of procuring...honey, bleached in the sun till it becomes quite white, i» another substitute for sugar. The Arabs in Eastern Africa make honey -sugar ; the material, after... | |
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I was made acquainted with their manner of procuring sugar, which is derived from the walnut tree, that flourishes here in extraordinary perfection. During spring, just as the sap is rising, the trunk is pierced, and a spigot left in it for some time... 