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<pre>From my ethnographic work in northern Jordan, some people do pit the
olives prior to processing, but this is for only small amounts of oil
being processed for household use. No evidence that it was done for
larger "commercial" oil processing. Some people said that the crushed
stone releases a "bitter" taste to the oil. There are a few Roman period
references to removing the stones for the same reason.

A couple of other cultural practices: smoking the olives prior to
processing, and drying the olives prior to processing, or both. These
are traditional practices that are disappearing over time.



Peter Warnock


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Dave Selway wrote:

> Has anyone tried removing the stones from olives, prior to processing them to
produce oil?.Any success??
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