assafœtida

• Myrrh and assafœtida are of this description. —  Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
• Is it possible that a substance of so disagreeable a smell as assafœtida can be formed from a volatile oil? —  Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
• Asphalt ... assafœtida ... fish bait ... béton —  Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
• But the cookery, and the gravy into which they are wont to put wine and vinegar, and shred thunny fish, and the sauce in which the fish chalbith is not swimming, and the herring, and the essence of assafœtida, and spiced salt, are forbidden; but every use of them is not strictly forbidden. —  Hebrew Literature
• These things are allowed for eating — milk which an idolater milked, and an Israelite saw, and honey and honeycomb, even if they are dropping, as they do not contain the effect of liquor, (450) and gravy into which they are not wont to put wine and vinegar, and shred thunny fish, and sauce in which there is the fish chalbith, and the leaf of the assafœtida, and olives crushed into round cakes. —  Hebrew Literature

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