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they fall from the trees, give an agreeable odovir ; the integument 

 is severed, the frnit is then roasted in fire, washed in pure water 

 and the skin is peeled off. Press the fruits with the hands and 

 swallow the pulp of it ; even honey, milk and sugar will not resem- 

 ble the pulp in sweetness : the fruits may also be sprinkled with 

 reserved Palmyra pulp-water and then be used. Also the pulp is 

 expressed, mixed with rice flour, boiled in oil or ghee, and then 

 used as sweet cakes. The Pandal is made in a suitable place, and 

 & certain spot near the Pandal is nicely daubed with cow-dung. 

 Poojah is offered to Ganesa, his aid is implored, and then the ripe 

 fruits are wasiied in water, broken by beating with a wooden 

 mallet, and the skin is peeled off; the fruits are then put in Kadaca- 

 baskets, reserved Palmyra pulp-water is poured in, well pressed 

 Avith the hands ; the stones are carefully expressed, and put in 

 another Kadaca-basket and undergo a similar process a second 

 time ; the stones are then thrown out in a heap ; the fibres of the 

 fruits that lie blended with the expressed pulp are carefull}^ separa- 

 ted by a brush, made of the twigs of certain shrubs ; the pulp is 

 then poured upon a mat about twelve cubits long which is spread 

 on a Pandal ; well spread over the surface of the mat, and left to dry 

 in the sun during the day time ; in the evening the mat is folded, 

 in the following morning it is unfolded. The above mentioned 

 process is continued for about eight days, and when the pulp has 

 become well dried and an inch deep, salt and pieces of Perandi- 

 shrub are sprinkled over, lines are drawn with a weed hook (or 

 sickle), or a like instrument at the distance of a span from one 

 another, the dry pulp is pared off' from the mat, and then left to 

 dry for a day more in the sun ; the square pieces of dried pulp are 

 then folded, put in a Kooday -basket and laid over a Paran-shelf, to 

 be smoked and to serve for future use. 



Hear me, Lady, the process of dried prilp which a rich man 

 would use. In the pulp expressed from good edible Palmyra-fruits, 

 powder of Palmyi-a-jaggery and ghee are put, and the pulp is then 

 as before spread over the mat, and when the dried pulp gets half 

 an inch deep, it is as before pared off' and reserved for time of want. 

 Another process of preserving dried Palmyra-pulp is the following : 

 the dried Palmyra-pulp is cut into small pieces and steeped in 



