Thesaurus / salep
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Tacca starch or Otaheite187 salep; from the tubers of tacca oceanica.
Called also salep, and salop; it was a greasy-looking beverage, sold much on stalls in the early morning.
NINETEEN CENTURIES OF DRINK IN ENGLANDRICHARD VALPY FRENCH
Salep, sal′ep, n. the dried tubers of Orchis mascula: the food prepared from it.
Red Port wine was now given more freely in his medicated water; and his nourishment consisted of sago and salep.
EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF AIRJOSEPH PRIESTLEY
If too much salep is added, it gives its peculiar flavour to the bread.
Dr Percival has recommended the addition of salep with the same intention.
The same weight of materials, without the salep, gave only 23⁄4lbs.
Then, there are cresses and wood-sorrel to his breakfast, and salep for his hot evening mess.
Salep consists chiefly of bassorin, some soluble gum, and a little starch.
THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOMP. L. SIMMONDS
Salep is now almost entirely disused in Great Britain; but we remember many saloop-stalls in our streets.
CLUB LIFE OF LONDON, VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN TIMBS
WORDS RELATED TO SALEP
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