Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

CHAPTER X

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VEGETABLES

Use and abuse of the potato--Its eccentricities--Its origin--Hawkins, not Raleigh, introduced it into England--With or without the "jacket"?--Don't let it be _à-la_-ed--Benevolence and large-heartedness of the cabbage family--Pease on earth--Pythagoras on the bean--"Giving him beans"--"Haricot" a misnomer--"Borston" beans--Frijoles--The carrot--Crécy soup--The Prince of Wales--The Black Prince and the King of Bohemia 111-122