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Gerarde wrote of Tansy, "In the spring time, are made with the leaves hereof newly sprung up, and with Eggs, cakes or Tansies, which be pleasant in Taste and goode for the Stomach."

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

As for Cheese-cakes, Custards, Tansies, they are manifest Puddings, and all of Sir John’s own Contrivance; for Custard is as old if not older than Magna Charta.

From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.

I can't fancy Tansy-pudding," says Uncle, shuddering; "I cannot abide Tansies, even in Lent.

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne

And then again to eat oftentimes Pistaches, Almonds, Custards, and Tansies, &c.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.

Thus you may make Tansies of any other things, as Cowslips, Rasberries, Violets, Marigolds, Gilliflowers, or any such like, and colour them with their Juice; you may use green Wheat instead of Spinage.

From The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Wolley, Hannah