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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    tritious -y they only contain a favoury fub- flance, which may eafily be difpenfed with ;' and, fince there is no way to diftinguifh the mufhroom which is effentially poi- fonous, from that which may be rendered poifonous by a thoufand accidents, let us not hefitate to profcribe it from the clafs ^ ' <ib of feafonings, by fubftituting the heart of artichokes, celery, and the root of parfley, and other garden plants; in which it would be eafy, on enquiry, to difcover the fedu- . cing reliih of the deceitful mufhroom. C II AFTER X. TO MAKE A LIQUOR WHICH MAY BE SUBSTITUTED IN THE PLACE OF BEER. IN order to obtain liquor which may be fubftituted in the place of beer, take rye or wheaten bran, and boil it in foft water y