Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — Peanut's Many Uses. [ARTICLE]

Peanut's Many Uses.

The peanut is a much more useful product than most people, think. Besides its use in the roasted form, there are other innumerable uses. The nuts contain from 42 to 50 per cent of a nearly colorless, bland, fixed oil, resembling that of the olive and used for similar purpose*. More than 25 years ago there was begun in Virginia the manufacture of peanut flour, of which a particularly palatable biscuit is made. North Caro* lina has long made pastry of pounded peanuts. It is also eaten for dessert, and is roasted as a substitute fcf fee.