{"id":1789,"date":"2017-02-15T01:19:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2020-03-17T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:56:44","slug":"almond-from-toritto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/almond-from-toritto\/","title":{"rendered":"Almond from Toritto"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Almond from Toritto.<\/h1>\n<h3><strong>Almond from Toritto<\/strong> is the fruit of the almond tree, Amygdalus communis L., and is obtained from the native cultivar &#8216;Filippo Ceo&#8217; also called &#8216;Aminue&#8217; (at least 70%), &#8216;Antonio De Vito&#8217; (up to 20%) and other cultivars (up to 10%).<\/h3>\n<p>The almond Filippo Cea is characterized by a fruit in shell from the weight of 5 g, the seed from an average weight of 1.6 g with a percentage of seeds double or twin around 30%. For its strong pastiness is indicated for the preparation of sweets to which confers intense and pleasant aroma and for the preparation of almond milk.<\/p>\n<p>The almonds are well preserved inside their shells; if shelled, should be kept as much as possible away from light, air, heat.<\/p>\n<p>The almond from Toritto or almonds from Toritto, generally, are sold in sealed packages; if they are sold in bulk should be stored in closed containers to prevent rancidity.<\/p>\n<h4>Product category<\/h4>\n<p>Vegetable products in their natural state or processed<\/p>\n<h4>Other names<\/h4>\n<p>Aminue<\/p>\n<h4>Area of origin<\/h4>\n<p>the town of Toritto (Bari, Puglia, Italy)<\/p>\n<h4>Productive process<\/h4>\n<p>The plants are cultivated with three branches.<\/p>\n<p>The winter production pruning takes into account that the fruiting occurs primarily on darts.<\/p>\n<p>The average flowering time falls in the second half of February.<\/p>\n<p>The harvest generally takes place in August-September by beating consisting in beating the branches with long poles to make the mature product fell down.<\/p>\n<p>Fruits harvested are freed from the husk and placed to dry so that the water content is less than 7%; this ensures a good conservation of the product.<\/p>\n<p>The production in almonds without the husk is high and can reach an average of 1.3 t \/ ha.<\/p>\n<h4>Production period<\/h4>\n<p>Summer.<\/p>\n<h4>History and tradition<\/h4>\n<p>In the province of Bari the cultivation of almonds was widespread and affected the agricultural landscape and popular culture: just think of the heritage of Puglia peasant songs linked to long operations concerning the almond working.<\/p>\n<p>In the town of Toritto they select several cultivars that carrying the name of famous citizens of Toritto: the &#8216;Antonio De Vito&#8217;, the &#8216;Genco&#8217; and &#8216;Filippo Cea&#8217; (of which survives the first plant in the town of Toritto).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>description from Atlas of Apulian products &#8220;Atlante dei Prodotti Tipici di Puglia Prima edizione \u2013 Ottobre 2006&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-1-min.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-1-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-3-1-min.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-3-1-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-3-2-min.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-3-2-min.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-4-min.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-4-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-6-min.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-6-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-5-min.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mandorla-di-toritto-almond-from-toritto-5-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0images by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondodelgusto.it\/prodotti\/2269\/presidio-slow-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mondodelgusto.it<\/a> &#8211; 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Almond from Toritto is the fruit of the almond tree, Amygdalus communis L., and is obtained from the native cultivar &#8216;Filippo Ceo&#8217; also called &#8216;Aminue&#8217; (at least 70%), &#8216;Antonio De Vito&#8217; (up to 20%) and other cultivars (up to 10%). The almond Filippo Cea is characterized by a fruit in shell from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520],"tags":[1635,1639,1637,882,100,1540,1641],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-english","tag-almond","tag-almond-from-toritto","tag-almonds","tag-apulia","tag-bari-en","tag-puglia-en","tag-toritto-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dispensadeitipici.it\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}