[Sca-cooks] Noce d'India (long)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Cindy M. Renfrow" wrote:
>
> Gerard's editor, Johnson, adds "The other, expressed in the same table with
> the former, by the name of Mehenbethene, Clusius receiued it by the same
> name from Cortusus of Padua: yet it doth not (as hee saith) well agree with
> the description; and he rather approues of their opinion who refer it to
> the Nux unguentaria, or Ben.  It is some inch long, of a triangular figure,
> with a hard and wooddy shel: which broken, shewes three cells or
> partitions, in each whereof is contained a long kernell white and sweet."

Waitaminnit! Is this a description of, well, an India nut, such as used
to be available for purchase in little bags in the U.S., just as things
like pumpkin or sunflower seeds are? Like Jack Oakey used to annoy
people with in Frank Capra's 1930's film of the Kaufman and Hart play
"Once in a Lifetime"?

_THOSE_ India nuts???

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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