"Don't say 'larks!'" implored Amy, as a return snub for the 'samphire' correction. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
Hangs one that gathers samphire -- dreadful trade!. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
I imagined it as a bit like marsh samphire but for the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Salsola] Reference
Thanks Laurie - that is great that you can just pick samphire. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Herb Blogging #117] Reference
Pickled capers, and gravy, or gravy, and samphire, cut an inch long. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Sea spleenwort and masses of samphire grew on the cliffs to his right. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
There's basic stuff, too: sea trout with samphire and rib of beef aged for 35 days. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant: The Pump House, Bristol] Reference
Peter and petrels and St. Peter and water-walking and samphire swim though my mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
It was mildly crunchy but not as satisfyingly, poppingly crunchy as samphire would be. From Wordnik.com. [Salsola] Reference
Hercules, where the samphire grows neglected, and wild ferns thrive in unexpected places. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
They got across the sands with their samphire, just as Coomber and Bob were springing ashore. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor's Lass] Reference
"Mother said he'd take the samphire by boat to Fellness, and I thought perhaps he'd take me too.". From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor's Lass] Reference
In the course of ten days, turn the vinegar from the samphire, heat it scalding hot, and turn it back. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
Hi Melis - thank you for sharing your cooking method, if I find some more samphire I'll have to try it!. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Herb Blogging #117] Reference
Or leave out carrots and fruit, and put samphire and capers, and thicken it with French barley tender boil'd. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
A tranche of confit salmon with crab in a jelly tube, cannelloni style, with samphire was fresh and inoffensive. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant review: Roux at Parliament Square] Reference
Every one of those hundred orators is to me a more fearful thought than that of a hundred men gathering samphire. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Or boil them with capers, samphire, mace, nutmeg, spinage, endive, and a rack or chine of mutton boil'd with them. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Here the samphire grew in abundance, and the little girl set to work to fill the two large baskets that stood near. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor's Lass] Reference
You'll take me, daddy, won't yer -- 'cos I've picked a lot of samphire -- all that, and another basketful up there?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor's Lass] Reference
Travelled over a miserable country, with saltbush of various description, and samphire, and small stones occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
These hollows or flats were covered with salsolaceous plants and samphire, and appeared once to have been salt swamps. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
Other categories comprise: mangrove; samphire; lowland rain forest; paperbark swamp; seasonal floodplain and sandstone rain forest. From Wordnik.com. [Kakadu National Park, Australia] Reference
The ooze, impregnated with sea salt, produces, on this side of the harbour, an incredible quantity of the finest samphire I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
New Bedford one day, watching some ducks, when a man informed me, that, having let out his young ducks to seek their food amid the samphire. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
Here in days gone by the samphire gatherer plied his 'dreadful trade,' and, still from the wooded cliff 'the fishermen that walk upon the beach appear like mice.'. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
I had the pan-fried pollack fillet (£14), with chilli butter and samphire. From Wordnik.com. [Latest hospitality news from CatererSearch] Reference
(It also goes by the names pickleweed, glasswort, sea bean, sea pickle and marsh samphire.). From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Airlines Aids Rainforest Preservation] Reference
The bucket of fat langoustines straight off the boat on Jura (to be eaten later with samphire). From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The shores of the lake, as usual, were covered with samphire, having something the appearance of heather. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
These detached sheets were fringed round with samphire bushes with which the basin was also speckled over. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
The fish skin was good and crispy, there was samphire (tender and salty), plump mussels and lettuce skilfully braised. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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