A delicious alternative spread for toast, sandwiches, crackers, baking and sweet or savoury cooking. Stir through pasta, add to salad dressing or stir fries.

Ingredients:
Cashews, lightly roasted .

RECIPES:
CASHEW CRINKLES
125gm butter
1/4 cup castor sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar - Lightly packed
1/3 cup Melrose Cashew Spread
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 1/4 cups plain flour (Four Leaf Light Flour)
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
pinch salt
Cream together butter, sugars, Melrose Cashew Spread, vanilla and lemon rind.
Sift flour, soda and salt. Press biscuit down lightly with a fork, for a crinkled effect.
Bake in moderate oven 190*C for 15 minutes. CASHEW GINGER SAUCE
1 cup Melrose Cashew Spread
3 cups water
3 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
1 tablespoons tamari Cashew (Bertholletia excelsa)
Cashew (Anacardium occidental)
The Cashew tree is indigenous to the West Indies, Central America, Peru and Brazil.
The Portuguese transplanted it to the East Indies as early as the 16th century, and it was later established on the eastern coast of Africa.
Today, the leading cashew producing countries are India, Brazil, Nigeria and Mozambique.

The cashew tree grows up to 15 metres in height and has a thick and tortuous trunk and branches so winding that they frequently reach the ground.
The cashew tree produces many resources and products.

The bark and leaves of the tree are used medicinally, the cashew nut has international appeal and market value as a food, and even the shell around the nut is used medicinally and has industrial applications in the plastics and resin industries for its phenol content.

The cashew nut grows in its own kidney shaped hard shell as the end of a pseudo-fruit or "cashew fruit or apple".
The nut kernel inside is covered with an inner shell and between the two shells is a thick caustic toxic oil called "cardol" which will raise blisters on the skin.
Cashew nuts must be cleaned to remove the cardol and then roasted to remove toxins before they can be eaten.

Information source: Melrose Health, www.melrosehelth.com.au