Identifier: spicestheirnatur00mcco (find matches)
Title: Spices, their nature and growth, the vanilla bean, a talk on tea
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: McCormick and company, Baltimore. (from old catalog) Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: Spices cbk
Publisher: Baltimore, Md., McCormick & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he Comores, Mauritius and the Seychelles are most im-portant. These beans are shorter than the Mexican, decidedly in-ferior in tlaxoring qualitv, and, therefore, less expensive. They morenearly resemble the Tonka bean in odor. The cheapest beans are theTahitis and so-called vanillons or beans of the wild Vanilla (Vanillapompona). They are little used in extract making, and properly so,as they ha\e neither strength nor flavor. The Tonka bean is here mentioned simply because it is so largelyused in the manufacture of imitation Vanilla Extracts. It is the seedof the Diptenx odorata. native to Guiana. The pod is almond shapedand contains a single seed shaped like a kidney-bean. This bean isdark in color, having a thin, shiny, brittle skin, containing a two-lobed oily kernel. A hundred years ago these beans were found inthe snuffbox of ever\- gentleman and in the handkerchief case ote\ery lady. Further information regarding the \anilla-Bean ma\- be foundunder Flavoring Extracts on page 22.
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ChineseTea Plant ^^„ .. and Flowers ^^^^ Seeds Natural size IMPORTERS OF SPICES Tea

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