Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Persephone's Snack
Possibly inspired by the tale of Persephone eating the four pomegranate seeds in Greek mythology, Q-ster asked if we could get a pomegranate when we were at the supermarket last weekend.
It even came with its own instructions. Look, "Easy Open!" (Hint: total lie.)
Any fruit that needs that many instructions isn't easy. SwingDaddy points out that it is relative. It's easier to open than say, a locked safe with a lost combination. But harder than any normal kind of fruit.
After slicing off the top, scoring the segments, and opening it up . . .
The seeds are supposed to be extracted into a bowl of water, and then strained to separate them from the non-edible parts. We weren't sure how the straining part was supposed to work, since only the water goes through the strainer and both the seeds and non-edible parts stay on the same side together.
But anyway. The boys were quite satisfied with their crunchy snack.
And they thanked their dad for doing all that work!
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When I was a child ( 3 to 4 years old), there were a few pomegranate trees in our backyard. I was quite fascinated by them. But I've never developed into liking the fruit.
You can also do the whole thing under water and the pith floats...
I think Alton Brown has a video about how to do it easily (or more easily...
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