SC - olives
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Mon Apr 3 23:16:16 PDT 2000
In a message dated 4/3/00 10:59:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stefan at texas.net
writes:
> Olives were pressed for their oil. Were these ripe olives or still
> green? What was done with the crushed pulp? Hmm, for that matter,
> what was done with the crushed pulp from squeezing grapes for wine?
>
Green (raw) olives are pressed for wine, and the pulp is fed to farm animals.
Grape skins, called lees, are used in the production of the wine itself
("sitting on the lees" gives red wines their color), and then fed to farm
animals.
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