"Detersive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or (as our Country House wives call it) All-good, the gentle Turiones, and Tops may be eaten as Sparagus, or sodden in Pottage: There is both a white and red, much us'd in Spain and Italy; but besides its humidity and detersive Nature, 'tis Insipid enough. ...
— Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets • John Evelyn |
