Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

  • Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    warn us every moment of the poifonous principle contained in fungous plants, their reputation has not fuffered, but we continue to eat them with equal pleafure and fecurity. Hence, lince on this occa- fion calamity has not rendered us wifer, I. will point out with forrow and reludance fome means of preventing or diminifhing the accidents which arife from this fource. There fhould always be an interval be« tween the gathering and eating of mufh- rooms, during which they fhould be foak« ed in cold water, and then blanched in frefh water; and wine, vinegar, lemon-juice, or acidulous plants, fhould be mixed with the difhes in which they are ufed. Laftly, it is of the higheft importance to chew them well, left the property belonging to feveral forts, of fwelling in the ftomach, fhould give rife to enormous pieces, which would be pernicious folely on account of their indigeftible bulk. / * Mushrooms, I repeat it, are not nu- tritious ;