Kepéné Bihar Mária - Lendvai Kepe Zoltán: Domonkosfai értékőrzők (Lendva, 2012)

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The shellTess, so called Styrian oil pumpkin is considered to be a mutation by experts, a variety that houses seeds, whose outer shell does not harden or thicken like the seeds of most other pumpkin varieties. The shell-less pumpkin seeds were not only used for human consumption and fodder production, but they were also a very important source of oil, clearly reflected in the plant’s name. The first glory days of oil pumpkin production date back to the 1930’s, but after the Second World War it lost its ground and cultivation only continued in smaller households, mostly because people depended on the oil their harnessed from the seeds.

Pumpkin seed oil is a dark brownish green aromatic plant oil, which has several extraordinarily beneficial physiological effects. Oil crushing is a traditional activity in Austria, Slovenia, and in the Vend and Őrség regions of Hungary. Pumpkin seed oil has

Oil press with a screw spindle. Magyar Néprajz III. Handicraft, 230.

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