Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

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The Table

• Abſtemious Perſons who eat no Fleſh, nor were under Vows, 104
• Abſterſives, 42
• ACETARIA, Criticiſms on the Word, how they differ from Olera, &c., 1
• Achilles, 77
• Acids, 63
• Adam and Eve lived on Vegetables and Plants, 94
• Africans eat Capſicum Indicum, 34
• Aged Perſons, 44;
  • Sallet-Eaters, 80
• Agues, 81
• Air, 80
• Alliaria, 19
• Ale, 15
• Alleluja, 47
• Alexanders, 5
• Allium, 18
• Altar dedicated to Lettuce, 21
• Anagallis, 9
• Annæus Serenus poiſoned by Muſhroms, 27
• Anatomy, Comparative, 90
• Antecœnia, 74
• Antediluvians eat no Fleſh for 2000 years, 80
• Aparine, 12
• Aperitives, 10
• Appetite, 21;
  • How to subdue, 98
• Apician Luxury, 103
• Apium, 35;
  • Italicum, 41
• Aromatics, 13
• Artichoaks, 5
• Arum Theophraſti, 48
• Aſcalonia, 41
• Aſcetics, 106
• Aſparagus, 43;
  • preferable to the Dutch, 43;
  • how to cover in Winter without Dung, 87
• Aſphodel, 23
• Aſtringents, 9
• Aſthmatical, 31
• Aſſa fœtida, 52
• Atriplex, 32
• Auguſtus, 21
• Autumn, 71

B.

• Barlæus's Deſcription Poetic of a Sallet Collation, 113 [pg]
• Baſil, 7
• Baulm, 7
• Beere, 15
• Beet, 7, 79
• Benzoin, 51
• Bile, 36
• Blite, 8
• Blood to purifie, 8;
  • Eating it prohibited, 100
• Boletus, 26
• Books of Botany, 54;
  • to be read with caution where they write of Edule Plants, ib.
• Borrage, 8
• Bowels, 58
• Brain, 7, 38
• Bramins, 97
• Brandy and Exotic Liquors pernicious, 93
• Bread and Sallet ſufficient for Life, 2;
  • Made of Turnips, 46
• Breaſt, 19
• Broccoli, 10
• Brook lime, 9
• Broth, 19
• Brute Animals much healthier than Men, why, 91
• Buds, 9
• Buglos, 9
• Bulbo Caſtanum, 15
• Buphthalmum, 15
• Burnet, 35
• Butter, 64

C.

• Cabbage, 10
• Capſicum Indicum, 34
• Cardialgia, 34
• Carduus Sativus, 5
• Cardon, Spaniſh, 6
• Carnivorous Animals, 89
• Carrots, 11
• Cattel reliſh of their Paſture and Food, 86;
  • Vide Fowl.
• Cauly flower, 11
• Cepæ, 31
• Cephalics, 30
• Chæriphyllum, 12
• Champignons, 26;
  • Vide Muſhroms.
• Chaſtity, 21
• Children chuſe to eat Fruit before other Meat, 94
• Chriſtians abſtaining from eating Fleſh, 97
• Choler, 20
• Church Catholics Future Glory predicted, 115
• Cibarium, 63
• Cicuta, 48
• Cinara, 5
• Clary, 12
• Claudius Cæſar, 27
• Claver, 12
• [pg] Cleanſing, 44
• Climate, 80
• Cochlearia, 41;
  • vide Scurvy-Graſs.
• Cooks, 77;
  • Phyſicians to Emperors and Popes, 55;
  • vide Heroes.
• Collation of Sallet, Extemporary, 73
• Cold, 16
• Cooling, 33
• Complexion, 84
• Compoſing, and Compoſer of Sallets, 71
• Compotation, 74
• Conceſſion to eat Fleſh, ſince which Mens Lives ſhortned, 97
• Concoction, 18
• Condiments, 64;
  • vide Sauce.
• Conſcience, 98
• Conſent; vide Harmony.
• Conſtitution of Body, 57
• Conſuls and Great Perſons ſupt in their Garden, 121
• Contemplative Perſons, 104
• Convictus Facilis, 117
• Cordials, 7
• Coriander, 49
• Corrago, 9
• Correctives, 82
• Corn, what Ground moſt proper for it, 86
• Corn Sallet, 12
• Corroboratives, 52
• Corpulency, 82
• Cowſlips, 13
• Creſſes, 13
• Crithmum, 40
• Crudities, 26
• Cruelty in butchering Animals for Food, 99
• Cucumber, 13
• Culture, its Effects, 42
• Cuſtom, 81;
  • Of Sallet Herbs, how great a Revenue to Rome, 119

D.

• Daffodil, 48
• Daiſie, 15
• Dandelion, 15
• Dapes Inemptæ, 116
• Dauci, 11
• Decay in Nature, none, 106
• Decoction, 19
• Deobſtructions, 5
• Deorum filii, 26
• Diſtinction of Meats abrogated, 94
• Deterſives, 8
• Diſhes for Sallets, 69
• Diſſimilar Parts of Animals [pg] require Variety of Food, 89
• Diuretics, 19
• Dock, 15
• Dogs Mercury, 54
• Domitian Emp., 74
• Draco herba, 45
• Dreſſing of Sallets, vide Sallet.
• Dry Plants, 17
• Dung, 85;
  • Sallets raiſ'd on it undigeſted, 86

E.

• Earth, whether much altered ſince the Flood, 81;
  • about great Cities, produces rank and unwholſome Sallets, 85
• Earth-Nuts, 15
• Eggs, 68
• Elder, 16
• Emollients, 15
• Endive, 16
• Epicuriſm, 99
• Eremit's, vide Monks.
• Eruca, 39
• Eructation, 38
• Eruditæ gulæ, 77
• Eſcalons, 31
• Eternity, vide Patriarchs.
• Eupeptics, 58
• Euphroſyne, 9
• Exceſs, 72
• Exhilarate, 7
• Exotic Drinks and Sauces dangerous, 90
• Experience, 83
• Eyes, 7, vide Sight.

F.

• Fabrorum prandia, 8
• Fainting, 47
• Families enobl'd by names of Sallet Plants, 20
• Farcings, 35
• Faſcicule, 70
• Fevers, 20
• Felicity of the Hortulan Life, 122
• Fennel, 17
• Flatulents, 33
• Fleſh, none eaten during 2000 years. Fleſh eaters not ſo ingenious as Sallet eaters: unapt for Study and Buſſineſs; ſhortens Life; how all Fleſh is Graſs, 94
• Flowers, 17
• Foliatorum ordo, 105
• Fowl reliſh of their Food, 86
• Food. No Neceſſity of different Food, 90;
  • The simplest beſt, 92;
  • Man's original Food, 93
• [pg] Fools unfit to gather Sallets contrary to the Italian Proverb, 61
• Friers, vide Monks.
• Frigidæ Mensæ, 82
• Frugality of the ancient Romans, &c., 21
• Fruit, 75;
  • not reckon'd among Sallets, 76;
  • not degenerated ſince the Flood, where induſtry is uſ'd, 104
• Fugaces fructus, 74
• Fungus, 26, vide Muſhroms.
• Fungus reticularis, 27
• Furniture and Ingredients of Sallets, 61

G.

• Galen Lover of Lettuce, 21
• Gardiner's happy Life, 113;
  • Entertain Heroes and great Perſons, 115
• Garlick, 18
• Garniſhing, 8
• Gatherers of Sallets ſhould be ſkilful Herbariſts, 71
• Gemmæ, 9, vide Buds.
• Gerkems, 15, vide Cucumber.
• Ginny-Pepper, 78
• Goats beard, 18
• Golden Age, 99
• Gordian Emp., 82
• Gramen Amygdaloſum, 48
• Grand Sallet, 42
• Graſs, 82
• Grillus, 56
• Gymnoſophiſts, 97

H.

• Habits difficult to overcome, applied to Fleſh-Eaters, 98
• Hæredium of old, 123
• Halimus, 36
• Harmony in mixing Sallet Ingredients as Notes in Muſick, 60
• Hautgout, 77
• Head, 40, vide Cephalicks.
• Heart, 42, vide Cordials.
• Heliotrop, 49
• Hemlock, 54
• Herbaceous Animals know by inſtinct what Herbs are proper for them better than Men, 56;
  • and excel them in moſt of the ſenſes, ib.
• Herbals, vide Books.
• Herbs, crude, whether wholſome, 80;
  • What proper for Sallets, 70;
  • Their Qualities and Vertues to be examined, 82;
  • Herby Diet most Natural, 98
• [pg] Heroes of old ſkill'd in Cookery, 77
• Hippocrates condemns Radiſh, 37;
  • That Men need only Vegetables, 106
• Hippoſelinum, 5
• Holyhoc, 24
• Honey, 14
• Hops, 19
• Horarii fructus, 74
• Horminum, 12
• Horſes not ſo diſeaſed as Men, 91;
  • Recompenſ'd by ſome Maſters for long Service, 91
• Horſe-Radiſh, 38
• Hortulan Proviſion moſt plentiful of any, advantageous, univerſal, natural, &c., 110
• Hot Plants, 8
• Hot Beds, how unwholſome for Salleting, 85
• Houſe-wife had charge of the Kitchin Garden, 119
• Humours, 57
• Hypochondria, 9
• Hyſop, 19

I.

• Ilander, 58;
  • obnoxious to the Scorbute, ib.
• Indigeſtion, 38
• Ingredients, 4, vide Furniture.
• Inſects, 28
• Intuba Sativa, 16
• Iſrælites Love of Onions, 32

J.

• Jack-by-the-Hedge, 19
• John the Baptiſt, 106
• Juſtin Martyr concerning the eating of Blood, 101

K.

• Knife for cutting Sallets, 68
• Kitchen Garden, 119, vide Potagere.

L.

• Lapathum, 24
• Laſerpitium, 51
• Latet anguis in herba, 115
• Laws, 116
• Laxatives, 7
• Leeks, 20
• Legumena, 73
• Lettuce, 20
• Limon, 23
• Liver, 13
• Longævity, 81
• Lotophagi, 106
• Lungs, 20
• Lupulus, 19
• Luxury, 81
• [pg] Lyſimachia Seliquoſa glabra, 49
• Lyſter, Dr., 56

M.

• Macarons, 49
• Majoran, 19
• Mallows, 23
• Malvæ folium sanctiſſimum, ib.
• Man before the Fall knew the Vertues of Plants, 83;
  • Unbecoming his Dignity to butcher the innocent Animal for Food, 94;
  • Not by nature carnivorous, 111;
  • Not lapſed ſo ſoon as generally thought, 95
• Marygold, 19
• Maſculine Vigour, 52
• Materia medica, 65
• Materials for Sallets, vide Furniture.
• Maximinus an egregious Glutton, Sallet-hater, 121
• Meats commend not to God, 99
• Medals of Battus with Silphium on the reverſe, 51
• Meliſſa, 7
• Melon, how cultivated by the Ancients, 24
• Memory to aſſiſt, 7
• Mints, 25
• Mithacus, a Culinary Philoſopher, 77
• Mixture, 57
• Moiſt, 9
• Monks and Friers perſtring'd for their idle unprofitable Life, 107 & ſeqq.
• Morocco Ambaſſador, 43; Lover of Sow-thiſtles.
• Mortuorum cibi Muſhroms, 20
• Moſaical Cuſtoms, 94;
  • Moſes gave only a ſummary account of the Creation, ſufficient for inſtruction, not Curioſity, 102
• Muſhroms, 26;
  • Pernicious Accidents of eating them, 26;
  • How produced artificially, 29
• Muſtard, 30
• Myrrh, 12
• Myrtil-Berries, 35

N.

• Napus, 46
• Naſturtium, 13;
  • Indicum, 41
• Nature invites all to Sallets, 111
• [pg] Nepenthes, 9
• Nerves, 54
• Nettle, 30
• Nigard, 61
• Nouriſhing, 5

O.

• Obſtructions, 16
• Ocimum, 7
• Olera, what properly, how diſtinguish'd from Acetaria, 1, 2
• Oluſcula, 4
• Onion, 31;
  • What vaſt Quantities ſpent in Egypt, 32
• Opening, 16
• Orach, 32
• Orange, 23
• Ornithogallon, 48
• Oxalis, 42
• Oxylapathum, 15
• Oyl, how to chooſe, 63;
  • Its diffuſive Nature, 69

P.

• Painters, 50
• Palpitation, 47
• Palſie, 30
• Panacea, 10
• Paradiſian Entertainment, 122
• Paralyſis, 13
• Parſnip, 33
• Paſtinaca Sativa, 11
• Patriarchs, 93;
  • Their Long Lives a Shadow of Eternity, 96
• Peach ſaid to be Poiſon in Perſia, a Fable, 87
• Peas, 33
• Pectorals, 58
• Pepper, 33;
  • Beaten too ſmall, hurtful to the Stomach, 34
• Perſly, 35;
  • Sacred to the Defunct, ib.
• Philoſophers, 56
• Phlegm, 30
• Pickle, 72;
  • What Sallet Plants proper for Pickles, ib., vide Appendix.
• Pig-Nuts, 28
• Pimpernel, 9
• Plants, their Vertue, 59;
  • Variety, 114;
  • Nouriſhment, 83;
  • No living at all without them, 110;
  • Plants infect by looking on, 57;
  • When in prime, 71;
  • how altered by the Soil and Culture, 84;
  • Not degenerated ſince the Flood, 105
• Platonic Tables, 97
• Pleuriſie, 81
• Poiverade, 7
• [pg] Poppy, 48
• Porrum, 20
• Poſtdiluvians, 93
• Potage, 5
• Potagere, 119
• Pot-Herbs, 19
• Poyſon, 18
• Præcoce Plants not ſo wholſome artificially raiſ'd, 85
• Preparation to the dreſſing of Sallets, 10
• Prodigal, 61
• Pugil, 70
• Puniſhment, 18
• Purſlan, 36
• Putrefaction, 33
• Pythagoras, 97

Q.

• Quality and Vertue of Plants, 53. See Plants.

R.

• Radiſh, 37;
  • of Gold dedicated at Delphi, 37;
  • Moſchius wrote a whole Volume in praiſe of them, ib.;
  • Hippocrates condemns them, ib.
• Raphanus Ruſticanus Horſe Radiſh, 38
• Radix Lunaria, 48;
  • Perſonata, 49
• Ragout, 28
• Rampion, 39
• Rapum, 46
• Ray, Mr., 55
• Refreſhing, 13
• Reſtaurative, 5
• Rocket, 39
• Roccombo, 18
• Roman Sallet, 112;
  • Lux, 115
• Roſemary, 39
• Roots, 37
• Rhue, 49

S.

• Saffron, 68
• Sage, 39
• Sallets, what, how improved, whence ſo called, 3;
  • Ingredients, 4;
  • Variety and Store above what the Ancients had, 112;
  • Bills of Fare, 112;
  • Skill in chooſing, gathering, compoſing and dreſſing, 48;
  • found in the Crops of Foul, 62;
  • what formerly in uſe, now abdicated, 49;
  • extemporary Sallets, 87;
  • Whether beſt to begin or conclude with Sallets, 73
• [pg] Salade de Preter, 13
• Salt, 64;
  • What beſt for Sallets, 64;
  • Salts Eſſential, and of Vegetables, 65
• Sambucus, 16
• Sampier, 40
• Sanguine, 36
• Sarcophagiſts, 56
• Sauce, 39
• Savoys, 11
• Scallions, 41
• Scorbute, vide Scurvy.
• Scurvy-Graſs, 41
• Scurvy, 9
• Seaſon, 71
• Seaſoning, 79, vide Sallet.
• Sedum minus, 45, vide Stone-Crop.
• Sellery, 41
• Seneca, 98
• Shambles, 77
• Sight, 50, vide Eyes.
• Silphium, 50;
  • How precious and ſacred, 51
• Simples, 49
• Sinapi, 30
• Siſarum, 42
• Skirrits, ib.
• Sleep, to procure, 21
• Smallage, 41
• Smut in Wheat, 86
• Syrenium Vulgare, 5
• Snails, ſafe Taſters, 56
• Sonchus, 43
• Sordidneſs, 87
• Sorrel, 42
• Sow-thiſtle, vide Sonchus.
• Specificks, few yet diſcovered, 83
• Spleen, 10
• Spinach, 12
• Spirits, cheriſhing and reviving, 9
• Spring, 71
• Stomach, 16
• Stone, 9
• Stone-Crop, 44
• Strowings, 67
• Students, 9
• Succory, 44
• Sugar, 14
• Summer, 84
• Sumptuary Laws, 116
• Swearing per Braſſicam, 11
• Swine uſed to find out Truffles and Earth-Nuts, 28

T.

• Table of Species, Culture, Proportion and dreſſing of Sallets, according to the Seaſon, 70
• Tacitus, Emp. Temperance, 21
• Tanſie, 44
• Tarragon, 45
• [pg] Taſte ſhould be exquiſite in the Compoſer of Sallets, 60
• Tea, 17, vide Appendix.
• Temper, 81
• Temperance, 21
• Teeth, 37
• Theriacle, vide Garlick.
• Thirſt, to aſſwage, 33
• Thiſtle, 45
• Thyme, 19, vide Pot-herbs.
• Tiberius Cæſ., 42
• Tragopogon, 47
• Tranſmigration, 56
• Tribute paid to Roots, 42
• Truffles, 28
• Tubera, 28
• Tulip eaten that coſt 100 l., 47
• Turiones, 9
• Turnip, 46;
  • Made a Fiſh, 113