The TraEtical Kitchen Gardiner, 



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SECT. VI. CHAP. LIV. 



Of gathering-, waging and drejjing of 

 fallets, 



^"T*^0 finifh this account of falkts, I 

 \ alfo add that of gathering, wafh- 

 ing, and dreffing of them. Now as to 

 the time and manner of gathering, you 

 are to be provided with a basket divid- 

 ed into eight or ten fmall fquares or 

 cells, wherein you are to put each kind 

 entirely feparate, becaufe fome gentle- 

 men love one kind of fallet, and fome 

 another 5 and alfo the faid basket fliould 

 contain three or four larger long divi- 

 fions or cells, which are placed in the 

 middle, to hold the roots of fellery, 

 endive, fennel, S'C. in the winter, or 

 the different times of cabbage lettuce in 

 the fummer. 



The morning whilft the dew is on is Of the 

 undoubtedly the beft time for gathering ^^^^^-^^ 

 all kinds of falletings, becaufe the leaves /^//^f rt 

 then eat crifp and fhort $ nor does the 

 plunging the fallet in water retrieve 

 that negled, but caufes it to eat watery 

 and flabby, and not to have its natural 



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