American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables

and little worth in cookery, and scarcely bear exportation. _Peas_--_Green Peas._ _The Crown Imperial_, takes rank in point of flavor, they blossom, purple and white on the top of the vines, will run, from three to five feet high, should be set in light sandy soil only, or they run too much to vines. _The Crown Pea_, is second in richness of flavor. _The Rondeheval_, is large and bitterish. _Early Carlton_, is produced first in the season--good. _Marrow Fats_, green, yellow, and is large, easily cultivated, not equal to others. _Sugar Pea_, needs no bush, the pods are tender and good to eat, easily cultivated. _Spanish Manratto_, is a rich Pea, requires a strong high bush. All Peas should be picked _carefully_ from the vines as soon as dew is off, shelled and cleaned without water, and boiled immediately; they are thus the richest flavored. _Herbs, useful in Cookery._ _Thyme_, is good in soups and stuffings. _Sweet Marjoram_, is used in Turkeys. _Summer Savory_, ditto, and in Sausages and salted Beef, and legs of Pork. _Sage_, is used in Cheese and Pork, but not generally approved. _Parsley_, good in _soups_, and to _garnish roast Beef_, excellent with bread and butter in the spring. _Penny Royal_, is a high aromatic, altho' a spontaneous herb in old ploughed fields, yet might be more generally cultivated in gardens, and used in cookery and medicines. _Sweet Thyme_, is most useful and best approved in cookery. _FRUITS._ _Pears_, There are many different kinds; but the large Bell Pear, sometimes called the Pound Pear, the yellowest is the best, and in the same town they differ essentially. _Hard Winter Pear_, are innumerable in their qualities, are good in sauces, and baked. _Harvest_ and _Summer Pear_ are a tolerable desert, are much improved in this country, as all other fruits are by grafting and innoculation. _Apples_, are still more various, yet rigidly retain their own species, and are highly useful in families, and ought to be more universally cultivated, excepting in the compactest cities. There is not a single family but might set a tree in some