"songbird" wrote in message

yes, there have been some excellent documentary shows on
PBS (Public Broadcasting System for non-USoAians)

We get to see some of PBS here in Oz bird - the news hour with Jim Lehrer
IIRC.

"songbird" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
Derald wrote:

Fig tree
sap is an irritant

And it's also a natural rennet which I didn't know about until we went to
a
celebrity chef' lunch at an Open Garden where the Host and his wife made
the
'extras' for the chef including a soft cheese using a fresh cut fig
branch.

huh! what that might do to some folks digestive
system could be ... i'm not sure i'd want to test
that out myself.

The cheese it makes is superb. It was mentioned in Homer's Iliad so it's a
very ancient use of figs.

"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
"Derald" wrote:

Fig tree sap is an irritant

And it's also a natural rennet which I didn't know about until we went to
a
celebrity chef' lunch at an Open Garden where the Host and his wife made
the
'extras' for the chef including a soft cheese using a fresh cut fig
branch.

Vegitarian cheese is made using rennet from fig or pear sap.

Pear sap isn't something I've heard about before. Do you mean common old
domestic fruiting pear?

Farm1 wrote:
"Doug Freyburger" wrote..

Vegitarian cheese is made using rennet from fig or pear sap.

Pear sap isn't something I've heard about before. Do you mean common old
domestic fruiting pear?

I've seen photos of drawing a drop of sap where the pear is picked and
using that for the rennet. I can't tell what type of pear it was by my
memory of the photo. I think a common variety. The tree looked like
the ones that grew in the neighborhood where I was a kid.

"Billy" wrote in message
In article ,
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Farm1 wrote:
"Doug Freyburger" wrote..

Vegitarian cheese is made using rennet from fig or pear sap.

Pear sap isn't something I've heard about before. Do you mean common
old
domestic fruiting pear?

I've seen photos of drawing a drop of sap where the pear is picked and
using that for the rennet. I can't tell what type of pear it was by my
memory of the photo. I think a common variety. The tree looked like
the ones that grew in the neighborhood where I was a kid.

That's interesting. Pears are a genus, whereas tomatoes are a species.
Good question Farm1.

I can't claim that it was as intentionally thought out as your description
would suggest :-))

I have however long been aware that many people use common names that don't
conjure up the same plant in my mind as they have in their mind. In the
flesh it's a lot easier to sort out these confusions but less so on
newsgroups.