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

CHAPTER XI

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VEGETABLES (_continued_)

The brief lives of the best--A vegetable with a pedigree-- Argenteuil--The Elysian Fields--The tomato the emblem of love--"Neeps"--Spinach--"Stomach-brush"--The savoury tear-provoker--Invaluable for wasp-stings--Celery merely cultivated "smallage"--The "_Apium_"--The parsnip--O Jerusalem!--The golden sunflower--How to get pheasants--A vegetarian banquet--"Swelling wisibly" 123-133