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tafte, as is eafily diftinguifliable by thofe 

 that buy fallcts in the market 5 for 

 which reafon thofe that cut faliets out 

 of the garden, fliou'd take great care to 

 get it early and frefli, and to lay it in 

 fome cool place, only fprinkling fome 

 water gently upon it, without either 

 wafhing or picking it, till juft before it 

 is ufed. Some people, in cafe this care 

 is negleded, put the fallet in water, and 

 throw two or three iiandfuls of fait on 

 it. But tho' this is allowable in all boil'd 

 yet it ought not, I prefume, to be in 

 raw faliets. 



The next thing is the wafhing and 

 cleanfing itj which ought to be done 

 with great care, left fome of thofe fmall 

 and almofl: imperceiveable inhabitants of 

 plants and herbs fliould lodge them- 

 felves therein, thofe infeds being no 

 lefs naufeous and uneafy, than danger- 

 ous ; of which hiftory, as well as daily 

 experience, produces fuch inftances as I 

 need not repeat. 



The lettuces, fellery, fennel, c3"^. fliould 

 be quarter d, or cut into two parts, at 

 leaft, and every particular leaf of the 

 ftaik viewed with care, as fliould alfo 

 all the fmaller ingredients. Which be- 

 ing 



