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“ Carowaye and comfites, 6d. 
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A Warden py that the cooke 
Made—we fining y e Wardens. 2s. 4d. 
Second Course. 
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A cold Warden pie. 
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Complement. 
Apples and Carrawayes .”—Notes and Queries , i. 99. 
So in Russell’s “Book of Nurture “After mete . . . pepyns 
Careaway in comfy te,” line 78, and the same in line 714; and 
in Wynkyn de Worde’s “ Boke of Kervynge” (“Babees Book,” 
p. 266 and 271), and in F. Seager’s “ Schoole of Vertue” 
(“ Babees Book,” p. 343)—- 
“ Then cheese with fruite On the table set, 
With Bisketes or Carowayes As you may get.” 
The custom of serving roast Apples with a little saucerful of 
Carraway is still kept up at Trinity College, Cambridge, and, I 
believe, at some of the London Livery dinners. 
Carrot. 
Evans. Remember, William, focalive is caret, 
Quickly. And that’s a good root .—Merry Wives , iv. 1, 55. 
Dame Quickly’s pun gives us our Carrot, a plant which, 
originally derived from our wild Carrot ( Dauc-us Carota ), was 
introduced as a useful vegetable by the Flemings in the time 
of Elizabeth, and has probably been very little altered or im¬ 
proved since the time of its introduction. In Shakespeare’s 
time the name was applied to the “Yellow Carrot” or Parsnep, 
as well as to the Red one. The name of Carrot comes directly 
from its Latin or rather Greek name, Daucus Carota, but it 
once had a prettier name. The Anglo-Saxons called it “ bird’s- 
