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 making tough meat tender, by being rubbed over with it.

The cahew apples grow of different forms, izes, and colours, ome being haped like a quince, and of the ame colour, ome longer, more round, les, and of a purple colour, and others of both colours; but all have the ame atringent quality as the quince. Thee apples have each a nut, which grows out in the middle of their tops, and is of the hape of a kidney; the hell of which nut contains an oil of a corroive quality that will conume iron; and being rubbed on the kin of a peron, it will caue it to bliter, as if burnt or calded. The apple is uually roated, the juice preed out, and put hot into punch, to which it gives a very fine flavour. The nut is alo roated, and the kernel of it is eteemed preferable to that of any other nut whatever. Of thee nuts, quantities are often ent from this iland to England as preents. The