Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “walwort = wallwort, A perennial herbaceous elder native to southern and central Europe and southwest Asia, and probably naturalized in the UK before 1500, Sambucus ebulus (family Viburnaceae), which has a strong unpleasant odour and has been used ...”
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Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “centory = Either of two European plants of the gentian family (Gentianaceae), Centaurium erythraea (more fully common centaury, †less centaury, †lesser centaury, †small centaury, †smaller centaury), and yellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata (in full...”
Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “Celondine = The name of two distinct plants, bearing yellow flowers; by the old herbalists regarded as species of the same plant, and identified (probably correctly) with the ‘greater and lesser chelidonia’ of ancient writers. Alterative, diuretic...”
Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “pellitory of spaine = nacyclus pyrethrum. Pellitory root is widely used because of its pungent efficacy in relieving toothache and in promoting a free flow of saliva. The British Pharmacopoeia directs that it be used as a masticatory, and in the f...”
Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “morrell = could be Any of several kinds of nightshade with black or deep purple berries; esp. black nightshade, Solanum nigrum; (also) †the fruit of such a plant (obsolete).”
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Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “mouse ear = Now usually in full mouse-ear hawkweed. A dwarf Eurasian hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum (formerly Hieracium pilosella), which has solitary yellow heads and leafy stolons and is common in dry grassland. Also (with distinguishing word):...”
Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “setwall = † Any of several species of the genus Curcuma (family Zingiberaceae), esp. C. zedoaria, which are native to south Asia and have aromatic, tuberous rhizomes. Also: the rhizome of such a plant, used in cooking and (formerly) as a medicinal...”
Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “Melilote = Old English, Any of various Eurasian plants constituting the genus Melilotus (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), characterized by trifoliate leaves and long racemes of small flowers, usually yellow or white, which smell of newly mown hay w...”
Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “Graines of Paradise = the capsules of Amomum Meleguetta of Western Africa (cf. cardamom n. b), used as a spice and in medicine; called also Guinea grains”
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Caroline Butten added a note to - in MS 373: Jane Jackson in Early modern recipe books, saying “Cubebs = The berry of a climbing shrub Piper Cubeba or Cubeba officinalis, a native of Java and the adjacent islands; it resembles a grain of pepper, and has a pungent spicy flavour, and is used in medicine and cookery. (Usually in plural cubebs,...”
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