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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- 
