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no refrigerators there had to be strong measures 

 taken for the perservation of all perishable food. 

 Its strong scent and taste would be deemed intoler- 

 able to us, who can scarce endure even the milder 

 Sage in any large quantity. A good folk name for 

 it is " Bitter Buttons." Gerarde wrote of Tansy, 



Sage. 



" In the spring time, are made with the leaves 

 hereof newly sprung up, and with Eggs, cakes or 

 Tansies, which be pleasant in Taste and goode for 

 the Stomach." 



" To Make a Tansie the Best Way," I learn from 

 The Accomplisht Cook, was thus : — 



" Take twenty Eggs, and take away five whites, strain 

 them with a quart of good sweet thick Cream, and put to 

 it a grated nutmeg, a race of ginger grated, as much cinna- 



