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A small handful (perhaps 12), young edible flowers, such as nasturtium— Ottaway Online Editors
Vast jars were filled with preserves so rich that there was no need of keeping the air from them; they could be opened, that is, the paper cover taken off, and used as desired; there was no fear of fermentation, souring, or moulding The housewives pickled samphire, fennel, purple cabbage, nasturtium-buds, green walnuts, lemons, radish-pods, barberries, elder-buds, parsley, mushrooms, asparagus, and many kinds of fish and fruit.— Home Life in Colonial Days
To these we may add, if we take herbs in the Scriptural sense, nasturtium, and that toothsome esculent, the onion, as well as lettuce.— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
Up to this time the ground is kept open and clean by cultivation; afterwards the borage will usually have possession Uses._--More popular than the use of the foliage as a potherb and a salad is the employment of borage blossoms and the tender upper leaves, in company or not with those of nasturtium, as a garnish or an ornament to salads, and still more as an addition to various cooling drinks.— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses

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