Because I have observed, that if this occurs, the ligneous fecula or spongy pulp, which is found intermixed with the fibres, adheres still more strongly to them.
The root of this species of convolvulus is tuberose; and a dose of two drachms of the fecula is sufficient as a purgative.
The ventricose or middle part of the stem contains a fecula which is extracted in times of want, and is eaten being prepared in various manners.
From this fecula is made a soup or angù, as it is called, which is seasoned with the emulsion or oil obtained from the almond of the same fruit.
The fecula of wheat contains also another vegetable substance which seems peculiar to that seed, or at least has not as yet been obtained from any other.
This nutritious fecula is obtained from the roots of a plant which is cultivated in both the East and West Indies.
This fecula has a beautiful white crystalline appearance, and is inodorous, soft to the touch, insoluble in cold, but readily soluble in boiling water.
The fecula of narcotic plants for medicinal purposes is obtained by allowing the expressed juice to repose for 24 hours, and then decanting the clear portion, and drying the residue.
The green fecula obtained by straining the expressed juices of the leaves and herbaceous parts of plants is of this character.
A species of feculaobtained from the tubers of the dahlia.
The fecula of the root of Janipha manihot (Jatropha manihot--Linn.
Its solution bends the luminous rays in circumpolarisation to the right, whereas grape and feculasugars bend it to the left.
When grape sugar or fecula sugar is thus treated, the first application of heat throws down a copious greenish precipitate, which rapidly changes to scarlet, and eventually to dark red, leaving a nearly colourless solution.
Thus the fecula or starch is set at liberty and free to be acted on by the yeast used in fermenting.
The second and third, by rasping the potatoes and so separating the fecula or starch grains from the mass, and then making a thin liquor or wash containing this fecula.
This mixture should be constantly stirred as otherwise the fecula will sink to the bottom.
The following methods provide for the isolation of the fecula or starch, without steam and the production of a wash of a more watery consistency, therefore easier to handle in ordinary stills, and with less liability to burn.
About twice as much water as feculawill bring the paste to proper consistency.
There are three main methods of saccharifying the feculaor starch of the potato.
When the water comes through clear, then all the fecula of the pulp has been washed out, and the refuse left in the sieve can be thrown aside or used as a food for cattle.
It forms a part of the green fecula of many plants, particularly of the cabbage; it may be extracted from the pollen of most flowers; as also from the skins of plums, and many stone fruits.
Nitric acid has the property of colouring wheat flour of a fine orange yellow, whereas it affects the colour neither of feculanor starch.
Pure muriatic acid colours good wheat flour of a deep violet, but dissolves fecula or starch, and forms with it a light, colourless, viscous fluid, decomposable by alkalis.
Ardent spirits or whiskey fromfecula or starchy materials.
It is this fecula which serves for making the rouge employed by ladies.
It may also be observed, that asfecula absorbs less water than flour, this affords a ready means of detection.
When deprived of its green fecula and glutinous extractive, it is still subject to fermentation; but this is now of the vinous kind.
On the contrary, it is only that found in rich loose soils which contains fecula in sufficient quantity for this purpose: in poorer ground the root contains proportionally more fibre.
Pure fecula is separated by art from a variety of plants.
This feculahangs together in chains, quite unlike the ordinary appearance of arrowroot when seen under the microscope.
Of plants yielding starch we have the Indian arrowroot, which is the fecula in the rhizomata of several species of the Marantaceæ.
Finally, all the deposits of fecula of the day's work are collected into one cistern, and being covered and agitated with a fresh change of water, are allowed to settle till next morning.
The paddle-arms beat out the fecula from the fibres and parenchyma of the pulp, and discharge it in the form of a milk through the perforated bottom of the cylinder.
In about four days the fecula is thoroughly dry and ready to be packed, with German silver shovels, into tins or American flour barrels, lined with paper, attached with arrowroot paste.
And how admit that omnipotence which stops at such a trifle as a pinch of fecula or a soupcon of alcohol?
They had dared suppress the wheat and shameless dealers were making almost all the Host with the fecula of potatoes.
By means of a rose, c, water is sprinkled over the entire surface of the sieve and separates the fecula from the fibrous matter.
Indigo was formerly planted at Caripe, but the small quantity of fecula yielded by this plant, which requires great heat, caused the culture to be abandoned.
This, from being mixed with the saccharine matter of the grain, soon runs into the acetous fermentation, and the weak acid thus formed by digesting on the fecula renders it white.
After some time a green fecula is deposited in the bottom of the water, which is washed, and made into cakes and sold for use.
All potatoes, and probably all maniocs, contain something harmful, which is observed even in the products of distillation, and which varies with several causes; but only matter foreign to the fecula should be mistrusted.
The manioc is a shrub belonging to the Euphorbia family, of which several roots swell in their first year; they take the form of an irregular ellipse, and contain a fecula (tapioca) with a more or less poisonous juice.
A plant of the family of the Scitamineae, allied to the genus Canna, of which the underground suckers[315] produce the excellent fecula called arrowroot.
Tapioca is the pure fecula without the mixture of the tissues which still exist in the cassava.
They were all equally naked, armed with bows and arrows, and painted with onoto, which is the colouring fecula of the Bixa orellana.
Is this predilection founded on the facility with which the savage procures ochreous earths, or the colouring fecula of anato and of chica?
Sometimes the fecula of the Bignonia chica is employed, after the pottery has been exposed to a feeble fire.
That amylaceous fecula which the seeds of the cereal plants furnish in all its purity, is found united with an acrid and sometimes even poisonous juice, in the roots of the arums, the Tacca pinnatifida, and the Jatropha manihot.
The feculais not less fattening when in solution, as in beer, and other drinks of the same kind.
The fecula is especially nutritious, especially as it contains fewer foreign principles.
They make at Paris for children and for birds, and in some of the departments for men also, patisseries in which gluten predominates, the fecula having been removed by water.
The fecula is the substance of bread, pastry and purees of all kinds.
By fecula we mean farina or flower obtained from cereals, from legumes and various kinds of roots, among which the potato holds a prominent place.
The antiobesic regimen is therefore indicated by the most common causes of the diseases, and by the fact that it has been shown that farina orfecula form fat in both men and animals.
The tubers being reduced to pulp with water, the fecula subsides, and is washed and dried for commerce.
The tubers contain a great amount of starch, which is obtained by rasping them and macerating four or five days in water, when the fecula separates in the same manner as sago.
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