smallage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of smallage
1250–1300; Middle English smalege, smalache, equivalent to smale small + ache parsley < Old French < Latin apium celery, parsley
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How is one to know how much smallage was got for a penny in mid-seventeenth century?
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
Let it remain three or four days, to have the smallage absorb the brandy—then put in as much more brandy as the bottle will hold.
From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous
Thus the horse-parsley was so called from its coarseness as compared with smallage or celery, and the horse-mushroom from its size in distinction to a species more commonly eaten.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
Take the juice of smallage or lovage, and mix with any kind of bait.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
In its wild state it has a strong, disagreeable taste and smell, and is known as smallage.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
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