Put in a pie-dish with a vanilla pod or some strips of lemon rind, and stand for an hour in a warm place, on the hob for example.
Then take out the podor peel and put into a fairly hot oven.
This vegetable silk is contained in a soft pod or bladder about the size of an orange.
The earliest travellers in Madagascar remarked this leguminous annual, cultivated by the natives for the podor seed, dressed like peas, French beans, etc.
The fruit, which is something like a long fleshy pod of some leguminous plants, is eaten cooked like a cucumber in tropical Asia.
Lepsius gives a drawing of a pod which appears to him to be certainly a carob, and the botanist Kotschy made certain by microscopic investigation that a stick taken from a sarcophagus was made from the wood of the carob tree.
Various new plants attracted my attention this day, especially a beautiful Loranthus on the rosewood Acacia, and a small bush bearing a green pod resembling a small capsicum in shape.
Although no flowers were seen, the genus of this shrub is well indicated by the pod and the general habit.
The pod somewhat resembled that of the Cachou nut of the Brazils,--Mùnumulà is the native name.
Unless he means by that that Swift knew that there was something in his constitution which made the ultimate realization of love impossible.
I know of no record that anybody ever spoke ill of her while she was living.
I have been going in an idle way over the notes in "The Tragedie of Jvlivs Caesar," edited by Horace Howard Furness, Jr.
Though the true Dantist will insist that the greatest of poets must be understood, or accepted, entire, like his own God and his own universe, I propose that the anthological view of him is proper and delightful.
Certainly he can not be jammed down our throat, and quite as certainly his stimulating and cathartic doses can not be snatched from our lips by moralistic prohibitionists.
Like Poe and other poets, he cannot abide the ugliness that is in the world, and so he insists on The Conqueror Worm, as a man cannot refrain from thrusting his tongue into the sore tooth.
Had he lived sixteen years longer, "Resurrection" might have made him happy.
Arnold was not satisfied with his essay and intended to return to the subject.
In his struggles with the world, and his wilful alienation from it, he clung passionately to the few who were allied to him by the ties of blood, friendship, or intellectual sympathy.
The Bible in Spain" is one of those books that grow out of circumstances; it was to a large extent thought out and phrased on the scene, amid the adventures which it narrates; later it was cast into book form.
The lonely philosopher was not neglected as man and brother.
Trollope's book on Thackeray, which is full of friendship and admiration, is an ill-written revelation of Trollope.
A girl shelling Peas will, if she should chance to find a pod containing nine, place it on the lintel of the kitchen door, and the first single man who enters is considered to be marked out for her future husband.
The village girls in Hertfordshire lay the pod with nine Peas under a gate, and believe they will have for husband the man who first passes through, or, at any rate, one whose Christian name and surname have the same initials as his.
By others it has been supposed that the Locusts on which John the Baptist fed were the tender shoots of plants, and that the wild honey was the pulp in the pod of the Carob, whence it derived the name of St. John's Bread.
The wholesale market price of peas in the pod varies from 50 cents to $3 per bushel at Philadelphia.
From this pod emerges a flower which, in some of the American varieties of the general species, will change its colour from day to day.
