57.  Scalions, Ascalonia, Cepae; The French call them Appetites, which it notably quickens and stirs up:  Corrects Crudities, and promotes Concoction.  The Italians steep them in Water, mince, and eat them cold with Oyl, Vinegar, Salt, &c.

58.  Scurvy-grass, Cochlearia, of the Garden, but especially that of the Sea, is sharp, biting, and hot; of Nature like Nasturtium, prevalent in the Scorbute.  A few of the tender Leaves may be admitted in our Composition.  See Nasturtium Indicum.

59.  Sellery, Apium Italicum, (and of the Petroseline Family) was formerly a stranger with us (nor very long since in Italy) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley, or Smallage.  The tender Leaves of the Blancht Stalk do well in our Sallet, as likewise the slices of the whiten’d Stems, which being crimp and short, first peel’d and slit long wise, are eaten with Oyl, Vinegar, Salt, and Peper; and for its high and grateful Taste, is ever plac’d in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Mens Tables, and Praetors Feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board. Caution is to be given of a small red Worm, often lurking in these Stalks, as does the green in Fennil.

Shallots.  See Onion.

60.  Skirrets, Sisarum; hot and moist, corroborating, and good for the Stomach, exceedingly nourishing, wholsome and delicate; of all the Root-kind, not subject to be Windy, and so valued by the Emperor Tiberius, that he accepted them for Tribute.

This excellent Root is seldom eaten raw; but being boil’d, stew’d, roasted under the Embers, bak’d in Pies, whole, sliced, or in pulp, is very acceptable to all Palates.  ’Tis reported they were heretofore something bitter; See what Culture and Education effects!

61.  Sorrel, Acetosa:  of which there are divers kinds.  The French Acetocella, with the round Leaf, growing plentifully in the North of England; Roman Oxalis; the broad German, &c. but the best is of Green-Land: by nature cold, Abstersive, Acid, sharpning Appetite, asswages Heat, cools the Liver, strengthens the Heart; is an Antiscorbutic, resisting Putrefaction, and imparting so grateful a quickness to the rest, as supplies the want of Orange, Limon, and other Omphacia, and therefore never to be excluded.  Vide Wood-Sorrel.

62.  Sow-thistle, Sonchus; of the Intybus-kind. Galen was us’d to eat it as Lettuce; exceedingly welcome to the late Morocco. Ambassador and his Retinue.