Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

  • Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fource fail, the ftarch reprefenting flour would ftill ierve for food ; it would be fufficient to dilute it in fome vehicle, in order to obtain a very nutritious broth or jelly. I have ufed the feveral ftarches ex- tracted from the following plants, with- out diftindtion, nor was it poffible to tell from which it had been procured : when there is a flight difference perceptible in the tafte, fmell, or colour, it fhould be at- tributed to the number of wafhings ra- ther than to any effential difference of nature. The Horfe-Chefnut *. ^ The Acorn. » [The roots only of the following vege- tables afford ftarch in confiderable quan- tity.] * This is not an indigenous tree of this country^ nor very often to be found in it. In France there are whole forefts of it. 1 Common