"As sweet, methinks, holy father, as pure and fragrant as she herself!" "'She,' my son?" "As Helen, good friar, as Helen the Beautiful, Duchess of Mortain!" "Ah!" sighed the friar, and forthwith popped the leek into the pot.

Similarly the house-leek has been designated the "devil's beard," and a Norfolk name for the stinkhorn is "devil's horn.

On this festival, too, the orpine or livelong has long been in request, popularly known as "Midsummer men," whereas in Italy the house-leek is in demand.

The flowers of the Arum maculatum are "bulls and cows;" and in Yorkshire the fruit of Crataegus oxyacantha is bull-horns;an old name for the horse-leek being bullock's-eye.

It has also beeen suggested that Welshmen "beautify their hats with verdant leek," from the custom of every farmer, in years gone by, contributing his leek to the common repast when they met at the Cymortha or Association, and mutually helped one another in ploughing their land.

It has also beeen suggested that Welshmen "beautify their hats with verdant leek," from the custom of every farmer, in years gone by, contributing his leek to the common repast when they met at the Cymortha or Association, and mutually helped one another in ploughing their land.

There was also the Catherine-pear, to which Gay alludes in his "Pastorals," where Sparabella, on comparing herself with her rival, says: "Her wan complexion's like the withered leek, While Catherine-pears adorn my ruddy cheek.

But in Poland, where the plant is difficult to procure, "the flower-stalk of the leek is substituted.

There is in many places a curious antipathy to uprooting the house-leek, some persons even disliking to let it blossom, and a similar prejudice seems to have existed against the cuckoo-flower, for, if found accidentally inverted in a May garland, it was at once destroyed.

Thus, for deafness, the juice of onion has been long recommended, and for chilblains, a Derbyshire cure is to thrash them with holly, while in some places the juice of the leek mixed with cream is held in repute.

And she took the dibble again and planted a leek, in her rage for work; while old Mme.

Mock Cock-a-Leekie or Leek Soup (maigre) is an excellent winter soup.

Two carrots, 2 turnips, 1 leek, 1 onion, 1-1/2 oz. butter, 1 teaspoonful celery seed, 2 lumps sugar, 1 bay leaf, 1 pint Plasmon white stock, 1 oz. flour, 1 gill milk, salt and pepper.

It is an impious act to violate or break with the teeth a leek or an onion.

It is supposed by some of the Welsh, and in some notes to a poem the author (Mr. P. Lewellyn) says he has been confidently assured, that the leek, as is generally supposed to be, is not the original emblem of Wales, but the sive, or chive, which is common to almost every peasant's garden.

It partakes of the smell and taste of the onion and leek, but is not so noxious, and is much handsomer than the latter.

The man was contented with his daily soup of bread-and-water, with an onion or a leek thrown in, and a suspicion of bacon, and the beast with such herbage as he could find while his master was getting ready another load of wood.

DAVENPORT, HENRY, C.C., Woodcroft, Leek.

There, within that now poor garden still bloom Saint Bridget's leek, and once ran flowers.

Take two quarts of strong stock made of gravy beef, add to this, carrots, turnips, leek, celery, brocoli, peas and French beans, all cut as small as possible, add a few lumps of white sugar, pepper, and salt, let it simmer till the vegetables are perfectly soft, and throw in a few force-meat balls.

This is how he composed his bouquet of flowers: the leaves were set with jewels of a pronounced, distinct green; the chrysoberyls of asparagus green; the chrysolites of leek green; the olivines of olive green.

A few rough fellows who were not away at work in the valley munched the maize bread with a leek and a bit of salt fish, and some of them had oil on it.

VEGETABLE SOUP (MILCHIG) Brown one-half cup of chopped onion in one tablespoon of butter, add one and a half quarts of boiling water, two cups of shredded cabbage one-half cup of chopped carrot, one leek, one tablespoon of chopped peppers, one tablespoon of chopped celery.

LEEK SOUP Put a small piece of butter in saucepan and then six or eight leeks cut in small pieces.

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