148 A GARDEN OF HERBS 



a napkin, then being dished in a faire clean dish, and finely 

 piled up in a heap in the midst of it, lay round about the 

 center of the sallet, pickled capers, currans, and raisins of 

 the Sun, washed picked mingled and laid round about it; 

 about them some carved cucumbers, in slices or halves and 

 laid round also. Then garnish the dish brims with borage 

 or clove gillyflowers or otherways with cucumber peels, 

 olives, capers, and raisins of the Sun, then the best sallet 

 oyl and wine vinegar. Ibid. 



AND NOW, IF YOU WILL MAKE A CROWNED, OR GRAND 

 SALLET, YOU MAY DO THIS. Take a Ballotin, or great Citron, 

 cut off the two ends, as if you would slice him out, then raise 

 in his rind very even with a great Knife to the very white : 

 then raise up the meat or white of your Fruit the thickness 

 of a Crown-piece, keeping your knife turning round the Fruit 

 at that even thickness, till you come to the heart or seeds of 

 your Fruit, then throw it into fair water, and when this is 

 done take a clean Napkin and spread it upon a Table very 

 even, then upon this Napkin you must lay your Meat of the 

 Ballotin, and there carve it neatly into what Form or Figure 

 you think fit, that may serve to make a Crown, by the help 

 of a Steel Saw which hath been cut; the French say cut 

 in the day, that is, that you may see clearly through it, 

 and you are to take notice, that you are to begin the work 

 at the lower end of the Crown, and pursue it to the middle 

 and finish it at the top or head. But because there are many 

 sorts of Crowns, you are to take notice that a Royal Crown 

 is to be cut at the top with crosses and Flower-de-Luces. 

 And you may take notice, by the way, that thus you may 

 make any Crown or Crownet, as big or as little as you please, 

 this being left to your own discretion. 



And when you have done carving and cutting of your 

 Figures for a Crown, and drawn and pick'd out all the loose 

 pieces, that your Work may show itself, then put your Crown 

 into cold water, and take fair Lemons and Oranges, cut off 

 the two ends and take off the Pill to the white at their full 

 bigness and height, to the thickness of a Crown-piece, and 



