salsify
a purple-flowered, composite plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, whose root has an oyster-like flavor and is used as a culinary vegetable.
Origin of salsify
1- Also called oyster plant, vegetable oyster.
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How to use salsify in a sentence
This method is especially satisfactory with new potatoes and with such vegetables as carrots, parsnips, salsify, and turnips.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesWhen thus prepared, salsify lends itself to the same forms of preparation as do the other root vegetables.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThe salsify was more cultivated a century or two ago than it is now.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De CandolleOr, instead of mashing the salsify after boiling, some prefer to drain it, and to dip each piece in batter and fry it in hot lard.
Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) | AnonymousUse a pint of salsify cut fine, boil until soft in a pint of water, mash and put through a sieve.
Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for salsify
/ (ˈsælsɪfɪ) /
Also called: oyster plant, vegetable oyster a Mediterranean plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, having grasslike leaves, purple flower heads, and a long white edible taproot: family Asteraceae (composites)
the root of this plant, which tastes of oysters and is eaten as a vegetable
Origin of salsify
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