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n. - Type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning.

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Usage examples (11)
  • -- Boil the potatoes floury; mash them, seasoning them with salt and a little cayenne; mince parsley very fine, and work up with the potatoes, adding eschalot, also...
  • Boil them, take the meat out of the bodies, and large claws; put it into stew pan with half a pint of claret, spoonful of eschalot vinegar, a little cayenne, some salt,...
  • Fry a minced onion brown in butter; cook the steak in this, on both sides, and serve with the following sauce: put into the same saucepan half a pint of strong soup stock, half...
  • To pickle Nasturtium-Buds: — Gather your little knobs quickly after your blossoms are off; put them in cold water and salt for three days, shifting them once a day; then make a...
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