Candlenut
One week at the farm we were experimenting with candlenuts. They have a really high oil content, and like the name suggests used to be strung together and burned for light.
So one was strung on wire and lit; it burned for around five minutes, with a strong and not very smoky flame. A good two minutes longer, and with a cleaner flame, than the macadamia nut burned for comparison.
Tags: australian, native, northey street, nuts
January 30th, 2009 at 8:56 am
that’s so cool. some days (even though i’d miss the interwebs terribly) i’d love to return to simpler times when there was less of the technology that we are surrounded with today. much harder work, of course, but i’d bet it’d be a much healthier way to live.