skirret

How To Use skirret In A Sentence

• It was made of barley; certain herbs, such as lupine and skirret, were used as substitutes for hops. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• Garnish it with orange peel boil'd in strong broth, and some French beans boil'd, and put in thick butter, or some skirret, cardones, artichocks, slic't lemon, mace, or orange. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
• Vegetables count cole, collard, kale, all ` cabbage 'and preserved in kailyard ` cabbage garden,' symbolic of Scotland's literature since 1895 as in "the kailyard school"; rutabaga ` turnip, 'literally, ` root-bag'; and skirret ` parsnip, 'literally, ` sheer-white.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
• His ‘Soops’ called for savory ingredients, such as spinach, carrots, artichokes, potatoes, skirrets, and parsnips.
• I have no idea whether sparrows eat skirret, but they were definitely sniffing around it the other night.
• The skirret gets an early head start, and is in full size and bloom by the time the hog peanut gets going.
• It was made of barley; certain herbs, such as lupine and skirret, were used as substitutes for hops. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• On the other hand, there was a kind of parsnip called skirret that did die out entirely because people stopped cultivating it, and a type of small onion, and a certain breed of English peas— TO STORM HEAVEN
• Your pie being ready, lay in your skirrets; season also the marrow of three or four bones with cinnamon, sugar, a little salt and grated bread.
• Skirret is cooked and eaten in the same ways as salsify and scorzonera.