SC - oop-greek dessert recipe-amygdalopita

[margali]

In a message dated 5/7/00 10:01:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, allilyn at juno.com 
writes:

> Since you have so many, just for the sake of experimentation, could you
>  oil one of them with olive oil, then use wax or parafin on another, and
>  see how they keep?  I'd really like to know how they were transported and
>  stored.  Enough English and German recipes call for the seeds that the
>  merchants had a way to move them around that may have been more
>  protective than just filling baskets or sacks.

I think the seeds would probably keep very well after drying (Ras?), and were 
probably shipped in this manner, rather than as whole fruit.  If your 
question is in regards to the whole fruit (which it seems to be) I know that 
a good number of craft stores here in California offer them complete and 
dried as elements for dried flower arrangements and the like.  There doesn't 
appear to be any holes or openings in them which would indicate that the 
seeds had been removed, either.  The "shells" are rather woody after 
drying,(very much like a bottle gourd) though I don't know the actual process 
used.  Has anyone who keeps or grows pomegranates ever noticed them to rot 
quickly?  Do the shells remain intact?  I am not familiar with the shelf life 
of a pomegranate, but it seems that if the seeds were the most valued part of 
the fruit, then perhaps they did not ship the whole fruit.  Does anyone have 
reference for whole pomegranates on any ship manifests or caravan lists?

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