Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Table Oils. [ARTICLE]

Table Oils.

While this country has turned to a considerable extent, either knowingly or by the prevalence of adulteration, to the use of cotton-seed oil for the purposes for which olive oil was formerly thought to be the only article suitable, in Germany they have been led to look to other sources to find a substitute for the olive, which they had difficulty in obtaining pure, and they think they have found it in an oil from the seeds of the linden tree, and at lower prices than the olive oil. Dr. Muller reports to the German Botanical Society that these seeds have fifty-eight per cent. oil. The oil has the appearance of olive oil, and is said to have a very fine flavor, free from any bitter or aromatic taste. It does not evaporate, it never becomes rancid, and has no tendency to oxygenate. It has been exposed to a temperature three degrees below zero without showing any change in the way of hardening or chilling. They have used the oil of the beechnut with good satisfaction for several years, and the nut has nearly twentythree per cent, of oil which coiild be obtained without any expense, but a simple pressing process, but there is one drawback to its becoming in general use, which is the well-known uncertainty of the tree in bearing, often not yielding freely for years at a time. The linden, on the contrary, is a regular bearer, and a large amount of the seed can be gathered each fall. —[Boston Cultivator.