Chap. XVIII.Atriplex siue Olus Aureum.Arrach.There be diuers kindes of Arrach, or Orach, as some doe call them; some of the Garden, whereof I meane to entreate in this place; others wilde of the Fieldes,&c.and others of the Sea, which are not to bee spoken of in this worke, but referred to a generall historie. The white garden Arrach, or Orach, hath diuers leaues, standing vpon their seuerall footestalkes, broade at the bottome, ending in two points like an arrow, with two feathers at the head, and small pointed at the end of the leafe, of a whitish yellow greene colour, and as it were strewed ouer with flower or meale, especially while they are young: the stalke like wise is mealy, bearing many branches with small yellow flowers on them, which turne into small leafie seeds: the roote groweth somewhat deepe in the ground, with many small threds fastened thereto: it quickly springeth vp of the seede, groweth great, and fadeth away as soon as it hath borne seede.The purple Arrach is in all things like vnto the white, sauing onely in the colour of the leafe, stalke, seede,&c.which are all of a mealy dusty purplish colour.The Vse of Arrach.Arrach is cold and moist, and of a lubricke or slippery qualitie, whereby it quickely passeth through the stomacke and belly, and maketh it soluble, and is of many vsed for that purpose, being boyled and buttered, or put among other herbes into the pot to make pottage.There are many dishes of meate made with them while they are young, for being almost without sauour of themselues, they are the more conuertible into what rellish any one will make them with Sugar, Spice&c.
Chap. XVIII.Atriplex siue Olus Aureum.Arrach.There be diuers kindes of Arrach, or Orach, as some doe call them; some of the Garden, whereof I meane to entreate in this place; others wilde of the Fieldes,&c.and others of the Sea, which are not to bee spoken of in this worke, but referred to a generall historie. The white garden Arrach, or Orach, hath diuers leaues, standing vpon their seuerall footestalkes, broade at the bottome, ending in two points like an arrow, with two feathers at the head, and small pointed at the end of the leafe, of a whitish yellow greene colour, and as it were strewed ouer with flower or meale, especially while they are young: the stalke like wise is mealy, bearing many branches with small yellow flowers on them, which turne into small leafie seeds: the roote groweth somewhat deepe in the ground, with many small threds fastened thereto: it quickly springeth vp of the seede, groweth great, and fadeth away as soon as it hath borne seede.The purple Arrach is in all things like vnto the white, sauing onely in the colour of the leafe, stalke, seede,&c.which are all of a mealy dusty purplish colour.The Vse of Arrach.Arrach is cold and moist, and of a lubricke or slippery qualitie, whereby it quickely passeth through the stomacke and belly, and maketh it soluble, and is of many vsed for that purpose, being boyled and buttered, or put among other herbes into the pot to make pottage.There are many dishes of meate made with them while they are young, for being almost without sauour of themselues, they are the more conuertible into what rellish any one will make them with Sugar, Spice&c.
There be diuers kindes of Arrach, or Orach, as some doe call them; some of the Garden, whereof I meane to entreate in this place; others wilde of the Fieldes,&c.and others of the Sea, which are not to bee spoken of in this worke, but referred to a generall historie. The white garden Arrach, or Orach, hath diuers leaues, standing vpon their seuerall footestalkes, broade at the bottome, ending in two points like an arrow, with two feathers at the head, and small pointed at the end of the leafe, of a whitish yellow greene colour, and as it were strewed ouer with flower or meale, especially while they are young: the stalke like wise is mealy, bearing many branches with small yellow flowers on them, which turne into small leafie seeds: the roote groweth somewhat deepe in the ground, with many small threds fastened thereto: it quickly springeth vp of the seede, groweth great, and fadeth away as soon as it hath borne seede.
The purple Arrach is in all things like vnto the white, sauing onely in the colour of the leafe, stalke, seede,&c.which are all of a mealy dusty purplish colour.
The Vse of Arrach.Arrach is cold and moist, and of a lubricke or slippery qualitie, whereby it quickely passeth through the stomacke and belly, and maketh it soluble, and is of many vsed for that purpose, being boyled and buttered, or put among other herbes into the pot to make pottage.There are many dishes of meate made with them while they are young, for being almost without sauour of themselues, they are the more conuertible into what rellish any one will make them with Sugar, Spice&c.
Arrach is cold and moist, and of a lubricke or slippery qualitie, whereby it quickely passeth through the stomacke and belly, and maketh it soluble, and is of many vsed for that purpose, being boyled and buttered, or put among other herbes into the pot to make pottage.
There are many dishes of meate made with them while they are young, for being almost without sauour of themselues, they are the more conuertible into what rellish any one will make them with Sugar, Spice&c.