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letting the Dough remain a little to ferment, fashion the Paste intoLoaves, and bake it like common Bread.

Some roast Turnips in a Paper under the Embers, and eat them withSugar and Butter.

80. Vine, Vitis, the Capreols, Tendrels, and Clasers, whilst ve-ry young, have an agreeable Acid, which may be eaten alone, or withother Sallet.

81. Viper-grafs, Viper aria, Scorzonera , Sals fix, &c. though Me-dicinal and excellent against the Palpitation of the Heart, Faintingt,Obftrulkion of the Bowels, &c. are besides a very sweet and pleaiantSallet ; being laid so soak out the Bitterness, then peel’d, may be ea-ten raw, or condited ; but best of all stew’d with Marrow, Spice,

J Vine, 8tc. as Artichoak, Skirrets, &c. sliced or whole. They like-wise may bake, fry, or boil them; a more excellent Root there ishardly growing.

82. Wood-Sorrel, Trifolium Acetofum, or Alleluja ; of the Na-ture of other Sorrels.

To all which might be added sundry more, formerly had in deliciis,since grown obsolete, or quite neglected with us: As among the noblestBulbs , that of the Tulip ; a Root of which has been valued not toeat, but for the Flower ( and yet eaten by Mistake) at more thanan hundred Pounds. The young frelh Bulbs are sweet, and high ofTaste.

The AJphodil or TOajfodil ; a Sallet so rare in Hefiod’s Days, thatLobel thinks it the Parsnip, though not at all like it; however it was( with the Mallow ) taken anciently for any Edule- Root.

The Ornithogalons roasted, as they do Che/nuts, are eaten by theItalians, the wild yellow especially, with Oil, Vinegar, and Pepper.

And so the small tuberous Roots of Gramen-Amygdalosum, whichthey also roast, and make an Emulsion of, to use in Breaths as a greatRestorative. The Oxylapathum us’d of Old, in the Time of Galenwas eaten frequently: As also Hracontium, with the mordicant ArumTheophrasti, which Hodonaus teaches how to Dress: Nay, divers ofthe Satyrions, which some condited with Sugar, others boil’d in Milk,for a great Nouristier, now discarded. But what think we of the Cicu-ta , which there are who reckon among Sallet-Herbs ? But whatever itis in any other Country, ’tis certainly mortiferous in ours. To theseadd the Viola Matronalis, Radix Lunaria, &c. nay, the Green Pop-py, by most accounted among the deadly Poisons. How cautious then.ought our *SW/ftf-Gatherers to be, in reading ancient Authors; leftthey happen to be impos’d on, where they treat of Plants that are fa-miliarly eaten in other Countries, and among other Nations and Peo-ple of more robust and strong Constitutions ? Besides the hazard of be-ing mistaken in the Names of divers Simples, not as yet fully agreedUpon among the learned in Botany.

There are besides several remaining, which, though abdicated hereWith us, find Entertainment still in Foreign Countries. As the largeHeliotrope and Sun-flower, ( e’er it comes to expand, and shew itsgolden Face) which being drefs’d as the Artichoak, is eaten for aDainty. This I add as a new Discovery: I once made MacaroonsWith the ripe blanch’d Seeds, but the Turpentine did so domineer overall, that it did not answer Expectation. The Radix PerfonataCounting with their young Heads, Lifimachia filiquofa glabra minor,

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