Hortus dietetica; or, Brief popular descriptions... of all plants useful as food to man1845 |
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Pagina 130 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
Pagina 16 - But at present nearly all the Iceland moss collected in Germany, is sent through Hamburgh to England, where it is used in brewing, and in the composition of shipbiscuit, as it is said biscuit which contains it as a constituent part is not attacked by worms, and suffers little from the action of sea-water.
Pagina 16 - Germany, is sent through Hamburgh to England, where it is used in brewing, and in the composition of shipbiscuit, as it is said biscuit which contains it as a constituent part is not attacked by worms, and suffers little from the action of sea-water. This lichen, when deprived of its bitter principle; forms an excellent soup, and when coagulated, a good jelly ; and it has been recommended in this prepared state as an excellent substitute for sago, (the pith of the Cycas circinalis), salep, and even...
Pagina 130 - So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, "O thou man of God, there is death in the pot." And they could not eat thereof.
Pagina 143 - The late rise and present magnitude of the British tea trade are among the most extraordinary phenomena in the history of commerce. Tea was wholly unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and even to our ancestors previously to the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century.
Pagina 103 - ... produced. One-third of boiled apple-pulp, baked with two-thirds of flour, and fermented for twelve hours, is said to make an excellent bread, very palatable and light. In confectionery the apple is used for comfits, compotes, marmalades, jellies, pastes, tarts, fritters, and various other purposes. To form a jelly, the apples are "pared, quartered, and the core removed, and put in a closely-covered pot, without water, in an oven, or over a fire. When well stewed, the juice is squeezed through...
Pagina 61 - Guam use it for bread. They gather it, when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind and makes it black, but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender, thin crust; and the inside is soft, tender and white like the crumb of a penny loaf.
Pagina 17 - ¿tanca, &c., referring to their colour; and in France, barbe de bouc, espignelles, and diables. According to the accounts given by Persoon of the continental mode of cooking these fungi, it would be strange indeed if they, or any other innoxious matters, were not edible. He says they are " stewed for an hour with butter, pepper, and salt, and then put into a gravy sauce, or a fricassee of fowls.
Pagina 164 - They will all however, on close examination, be found to possess thesameproperties in a greater or less degree. The potato, the tomato, and egg-plant possess, when uncooked, in a mild degree, the properties of the nightshade, the stramonium, and the henbane, confirming the remark of De Candolle, 'that all our aliments contain a small proportion of an exciting principle, which, should it occur in a much greater quantity, might become injurious, but which is necessary as a natural condiment.
Pagina 113 - Col they are much esteemed, as answering in some measure the purposes of bread, they having been known to support the inhabitants for months together during a scarcity of other provisions.