This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... letter xxii. January 4, 1831. The new year was ushered in by the disastrous death of a number of unfortunate pigs, which were poisoned by drinking of the water in which cassava root had been washed. With their fate before my eyes, would you believe that I ate a large plate of cassava pie at dinner! ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... letter xxii. January 4, 1831. The new year was ushered in by the disastrous death of a number of unfortunate pigs, which were poisoned by drinking of the water in which cassava root had been washed. With their fate before my eyes, would you believe that I ate a large plate of cassava pie at dinner! Though the root in its raw state is a deadly poison, it is quite innocent when cooked, for the action of heat deprives it of its noxious qualities, which reside in the juice. It is first carefully washed and scraped, and then grated into a tub, after which it is put into a bag and the juice squeezed out. The farina is mixed into a thick soft paste, and made up into meat pies, which are the standing dish at Christmas. Cassava puddings and cakes are delicious; but the plant is cultivated here only in small quantities, owing to the accidents which have occurred from its being eaten in its unprepared state. The cassava, or mandioca (jatropha manihot), is a pretty and very knotty shrub, growing about four or five feet high. The terminations of the branches are covered with leaves, and the flowers are placed in an umbel round the extremities. These are succeeded by nuts, which possess powerful medicinal qualities. The root is about the size of an ordinary carrot, but I never heard of any tapioca being prepared from it in Bermuda. There are two sorts of cassava--the sweet and the bitter; it is the root of the latter only which is poisonous. Another plant, having noxious qualities, grows wild, chiefly in low sheltered vallies and about die entrance of caves, and generally climbs like ivy round some taller tree. The 'poison weed' or vine, ' which appears to be a species of rhus, (perhaps the R. radicans, ) nearly allied to Rhus toxicodendron, the poison..
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