23.  Dock, Oxylapathum, or sharp-pointed Dock:  Emollient, and tho’ otherwise not for our Sallet, the Roots brewed in Ale or Beer, are excellent for the Scorbute.

Earth-Nuts, Bulbo-Castanum; (found in divers places of Surry, near Kingston, and other parts) the Rind par’d off, are eaten crude by Rustics, with a little Pepper; but are best boil’d like other Roots, or in Pottage rather, and are sweet and nourishing.

24.  Elder, Sambucus; The Flowers infus’d in Vinegar, grateful both to the Stomach and Taste; attenuate thick and viscid Humours; and tho’ the Leaves are somewhat rank of Smell, and so not commendable in Sallet; they are otherwise (as indeed is the intire Shrub) of the most sovereign Vertue; and the spring Buds and tender Leaves, excellently wholsome in Pottage at that Season of the Year.  See Flowers.

25.  Endive, Endivium, Intubum Sativum; the largest, whitest, and tenderest Leaves best boil’d, and less crude.  It is naturally Cold, profitable for hot Stomachs; Incisive and opening Obstructions of the Liver:  The curled is more delicate, being eaten alone, or in Composition, with the usual Intinctus:  It is also excellent being boil’d; the middle part of the Blanch’d-Stalk separated, eats firm, and the ampler Leaves by many perferr’d before Lettuce.  See Succory.

Eschalot.  See Onions.

26.  Fennel, Foeniculum:  The sweetest of Bolognia:  Aromatick, hot, and dry; expels Wind, sharpens the Sight, and recreates the Brain; especially the tender Umbella and Seed-Pods.  The Stalks are to be peel’d when young, and then dress’d like Sellery.  The tender Tufts and Leaves emerging, being minc’d, are eaten alone with Vinegar, or Oyl, and Pepper, and to correct the colder Materials, enter properly into Composition.  The Italians eat the blanch’d Stalk (which they call Cartucci) all Winter long.  There is a very small Green-Worm, which sometimes lodges in the Stemm of this Plant, which is to be taken out, as the Red one in that of Sellery.

27.  Flowers, Flores; chiefly of the Aromatick Esculents and Plants are preferrable, as generally endow’d with the Vertues of their Simples, in a more intense degree; and may therefore be eaten alone in their proper Vehicles, or Composition with other Salleting, sprinkl’d among them; But give a more palatable Relish, being Infus’d in Vinegar; Especially those of the Clove-Gillyflower, Elder, Orange, Cowslip, Rosemary, Arch-Angel, Sage, Nasturtium Indicum, &c.  Some of them are Pickl’d, and divers of them make also very pleasant and wholsome Theas, as do likewise the Wild Time, Bugloss, Mint, &c.