Pomegranite recipe

James Silverton said:

Recipes today in rec.food.cooking called for pomegranate
"arils". I wonder how many people were like me and did not know
what they were (be honest)? :-) It was possible to deduce that
they might be what most of us would call "seeds". Arils are
apparently seeds that have attached edible (usually) material
and thus are attractive to animals and cause the actual seeds to
be distributed. I guess its an unusual fault to be too precise
in recipes.

You need to do more crosswords :-)

On Jun 6, 5:59 am, "James Silverton" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Recipes today in rec.food.cooking called for pomegranate
"arils". I wonder how many people were like me and did not know
what they were (be honest)? :-) It was possible to deduce that
they might be what most of us would call "seeds". Arils are
apparently seeds that have attached edible (usually) material
and thus are attractive to animals and cause the actual seeds to
be distributed. I guess its an unusual fault to be too precise
in recipes.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

What about pips? That was a new one on me a few years back...

merryb wrote on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:57:21 -0700:

m> On Jun 6, 5:59 am, "James Silverton"
m> <[email hidden]> wrote:
??>> Recipes today in rec.food.cooking called for pomegranate
??>> "arils". I wonder how many people were like me and did not
??>> know what they were (be honest)? :-) It was possible to
??>> deduce that they might be what most of us would call
??>> "seeds". Arils are apparently seeds that have attached
??>> edible (usually) material and thus are attractive to
??>> animals and cause the actual seeds to be distributed. I
??>> guess its an unusual fault to be too precise in recipes.
??>>

Quoted message said:

What about pips? That was a new one on me a few years back...

I think that might be a Britticism. I'm not sure but I *was*
brought up in Britain.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

merryb said:

What about pips? That was a new one on me a few years back...

No. Pips are the seeds. The aril is the edible, fleshy stuff around the
pip.

merryb said:

What about pips? That was a new one on me a few years back...

Still not as good as gils. You can't even google it unless you include
cup, and then there's only a dozen or so.

nb

Dave Smith said:

merryb said:

What about pips? That was a new one on me a few years back...

No. Pips are the seeds. The aril is the edible, fleshy stuff around the
pip.

I know that- I was talking about the word itself!