[Sca-cooks] pomegranate fresh arils

[Galefridus Peregrinus]

Realistically, it isn't that hard to separate out the seeds -- it can be 
done fairly easily with in a bowl of cold water. And it's a whole lot 
less expensive!


-- Galefridus

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> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 19:52:17 -0500
> From: Stefan li Rous To: Cooks within the SCA Subject: [Sca-cooks] 
> pomegranate fresh arils
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> When I saw a plastic container of Pom Poms Pomegranate Fresh Arils at 
> my HEB grocery, I want ahead and bought it. I?m trying to modify my 
> diet and eat more healthily as well as adding some probiotics and 
> other things to my diet.
>
> They also have had fresh pomegranates, but looking at past discussions 
> in the Florilegium, it seems like a lot of work to get these out of 
> the fresh fruit, so I?m glad I didn?t jump up and get several of 
> those.
>
> These end up being small reddish, purple blobs of fruit flesh, but 
> have a small, hard seed inside.
>
> I was wondering whether to just eat and swallow these hard seeds.
>
> Back in Nov 2005, Adamantius said:
> <<< Each section
> consists of small juice-bearing kernels, somewhat like the little
> juice cells in an orange, only each has a small, white seed. You eat
> the kernels (each shaped something like a small kernel of maize
> corn), with most people spitting put the actual seed. >>>
>
> So, I?m still not sure what to do with all these tiny seeds. So far 
> I?ve been swallowing the tiny seeds.
>
> Thanks,
>     Stefan
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> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas 
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