The TraBical Kitchm Gardiner. 1 9 5 



inimicous to the ftomach, caufing (as 

 Mr. Evelyn has it) naufeous eriidati- 

 ons, and fometimcs vomiting, tho* other- 

 wife diuretic, and fuppofed of quality 

 to repel the vapours of wine after hard 

 drinking. T>iofcorides and GaleUj a- 

 mongfl: the antient phyficians, differ a- 

 bbut their eating, one prefcribes it be> 

 fore meals, the latter after 5 and fonie 

 (fays our elaborate author) macerate the 

 young roots in warm milk, to make them 

 more nourifhing. 



The raphamis nijlicanu^y or horfe ra- 

 difh, is well known to be of a much 

 hotter quality, and tho* not fo friendly 

 to the head and eyes, yet is an excel- 

 lent antifcorbutic, and a good flomatic^ 

 and on that account an excellent ingre- 

 dient in the compofition of muftard, as 

 arc ail the thin fhavings in cold faliets, 

 cfpecially in winter. But Mr. Evelyn 

 affures us, that by the following ufe of it, 

 it is the mod excellent and univerfai 

 condiment* 



Take (fays he) horfe radifh whilft new- 

 ly drawn out of the earth, otherwife 

 laid to fteep in w^ater a competent time, 

 then grate it on a grater which has no 

 bottom, that fo it may pafs thro' it like 

 O a mu- 



