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The TraBkal Kitchtn Gardiner. 



To the aforegoing kitchen buibs, may 

 be added r/^'^J, one of the prettieft little 

 kind of onion or permanent gariick, or 

 rattk-icek> that our gardens arc furnifh'd 

 with 5 it is the true porrum fativttm jun* 

 cifolmm of Cafper Baiihimis\ and the 

 fch£noprafmoi Gerard y as Mr. in 

 his Hiftory of Tlants, affures us. The 

 ufcs and virtues of it (tho' not in lb great 

 a degree) are^hc fame with the other 

 kinds; and it is propagated by parting 

 or flipping, as Will be more fully re- 

 lated. 



Of fh£ ' Thofe who have wrote of tlie virtues 

 virtues e/ iind vices of onions, drc. teii us, that 

 <'^^^ons. ^1^^ {2imz time that they are olfcnfivc 

 to the eyes, they raife the appetite, : cor- 

 roborate the ftomach, cut phlegm, and 

 profit the adhmatical ; and that as to 

 their obnoxioufnefs to tiie fight, it is 

 imputable only to the vapour arifing 

 from the raw onion when peel'd 5 which 

 fonie on the contrary commend for its 

 purging and quickning of that fenfe. 

 Hov/ many ways they are ufcd in pot- 

 tage, boil'd in milk, ftew'd, <^c. con- 

 cerns the ingenious cook, and need not 

 be taken, notice of here. In Italy (fays 

 my oft-quoted author) they frequently 



make 



