 | James Cook - Oceania - 1842 - 636 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread: it must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts : its taste is insipid,...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. Among others who came off to the ship was an elderly man, whose name, as we learnt afterwards, was... | |
 | Eleanor Parkinson - Baking - 1844 - 174 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of nesv bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten ; being divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid, with a slight sourness, somewhat resembling that of the crumb of wheaten bread, mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke."... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid,...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. Among others who came off to the ship was an elderly man, whose name, as we learned afterwards, was... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid,...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. Among others who came off to the ship was an elderly man, whose name, as we learned afterwards, was... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid,...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. Among others who came off to the ship was an elderly man, whose name, as we learned afterwards, was... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid,...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. Among others who came off to the ship was an elderly man, whose name, as we learned afterwards, was... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - Bounty Mutiny, 1789 - 1854 - 376 pages
...fruit hap a core, and that the eatable part lies between the skin and the core. Cook says also that its taste is insipid, with a slight sweetness, somewhat...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. From such a description, it is not surprising that the West India planters should have felt desirous... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid,...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke. Among others who came off to the ship was an elderly man, whose name, as we learned afterwards, was... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1865 - 408 pages
...of new bread. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. This fruit is also cooked in a kind of oven, which renders it soft, and somewhat like a boiled potato. Of the bread-fruit they also make three dishes, by putting either water... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - Adventure and adventurers - 1863 - 452 pages
...the skin and the core, and is as white as snow. It must be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four parts. Its taste is insipid...of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke." We have given this particular account of the bread fruit, because it is a curious and much used article... | |
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... not much unlike a truffle: it is covered with a thin skin, and has a core about as big as the handle of a small knife: the eatable part lies between the skin and the core; it is as white as snow, and somewhat of the consistence of new bread. It must... 
