Our word cress is from Mid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Cook about ten minutes, until the cress is tender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference

Well wash the mustard and cress and arrange on the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Water-cress, and its bruised leaves emit a pungent smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Serve on platter with meat, garnished with cress or parsley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference

Such berries, such lettuce, such water-cress, and the radishes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference

I have seldom seen such a display of cress sandwiches and champagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference

Fill the cases to the level of the cress leaves, and decorate with a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference

Pick over, wash and drain a pint of fresh cress, and dry in a cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference

Look over carefully one large bunch of water cress and chop it fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference

No cress could she find, so she thought she would turn back and go home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of One Syllable] Reference

We had before us blue points with water-cress salad, mountain trout from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

A beauteous halo and a fragrant smell the man encompass who the cress did pluck!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

Mr. Gibbon had made himself a neat sandwich of water-cress and thin bread-and-butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

Leaves of parsley eaten like cress with vinegar hide the odor of onions in the breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference

But a Danish biotech company has adapted one, the thale-cress plant, to help save lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Chop some water - cress, lay it on a finger, sprinkle a little Tarragon vinegar and water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference

Like an oyster, the Water-cress is in proper season only when there is an "r" in the month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

"Do take some water cress," pressed the strange hostess, possibly noting that Cora ate little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference

This letter was written over three years after Dr. Moore made his experiment in these cress beds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

Water-celery and water-cress are perhaps the best food-producing marginal plants that can be grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference

How to prepare and serve uncooked vegetables -- lettuce, cress, cabbage, etc. Cooking by moist heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

When this occurred, the practice was to rake out both water cress and algæ and reset the entire bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

You must come with me; I mean to send you out to find some cress, and then you must go and try to sell it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of One Syllable] Reference

SUNDAY BREAKFAST: Water cress, slice Star Ham broiled with milk gravy, hot rolls, coffee, home-made peach cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference

Lettuce, cress, and chicory are never cut with a knife, but rolled up on the fork and so conveyed to the mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

It was, therefore, most desirable to devise a method of ridding the bed of algal growth without injuring the cress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

Seeds also may be now sown of cress, mustard, and radishes, but they must all be gathered when in a very young state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference

For one, a path will still need to be cleared through a minefield so that thale-cress seeds can be scattered over the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Satisfied with the results attained in exterminating algal growth in water-cress beds, attention was next given to reservoirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

In gathering such salads as cress or mustard, and fruit of every sort, an absolute rule is to exercise the utmost care; and such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

After the cress was cut for market, the algæ frequently developed so rapidly as to smother the life out of the weakened plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

Parmesan cheese, or celery or cress salad, with no other dressing than the best olive oil and a teaspoonful of vinegar, will do very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference