How To Use Samphire In A Sentence
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As she observed, it would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort (given because it used to be burned to provide alkali for glass-makers).
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Outside the wall the samphire and orach beds are wholly marine.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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Samphire, a sparse low chenopod shrubland, occurs on tidal salt flats, typically of fine clay, between mangroves and the supratidal fringe.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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I suppose the bountifulness of this place is because there are three distinct habitats—first you have the salt marsh, with its marsh samphire, sea aster, sea blite and sea purslane," he says.
Modern Hunter-Gatherers
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Green though he was with seaweed, Samphire took his place beside the bride clad in white and was joined to her in matrimony.
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The fish were gutted and stuffed with a spoonful of herbs, or mustard, apple, or samphire.
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But anyway, he is mercifully unstarry on arrival — friendly, punctual and thrilled to find samphire on the menu.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't know what 'samphire' is.
Most people wait until they're in the restaurant before looking at the menu. Not me…
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Pickled samphire was once so popular and saleable in England that men risked their necks to collect it from the cliffs.
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Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquævitæ, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead.
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
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Add the remaining olive oil to the same pan, then add the samphire.
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Ungracefully slipping and sliding knee-deep in dark, sticky mud is not food gathering at its most glamorous, yet local people have been collecting marsh samphire between June and September for generations, wherever it is common but especially in East Anglia.
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The chef dishes it up with parsley sauce, in fish pie, and with samphire and cockles in his recent book Fish, Etc.
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Usually served in restaurants under the name samphire, or sea asparagus, salicornia is often served in salads or with seafood (or in England as a side dish, with a little butter and vinegar).
The Future's Farmer
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He held up a jar of dark green pickled samphire leaves: hashishet albahar, hashish-of-the-sea.
Day of Honey
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And then little strips of neatly trimmed young samphire and weeny rhomboids of skinless, seedless, tomato flesh imparted freshness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The subfamily Salicornioideae Kostel., more commonly known as samphires or glassworts, are characterized by their distinctive reduced succulent leaves, which may be modified to form an articulated, photosynthetic stem.
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The salt marshes support cord grass, marsh samphire and sea purslane.
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They are known under many other names, including samphire a name they share with a seacoast plant in the carrot family, glasswort, pick-leweed, and poussepierre.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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The alternatives to that were cod on samphire, ribsteak of Hereford beef or porcini gnocchi.
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The spontaneous appearance of a forest of oaks on the eastern shores of Asia was just as probable, under favoring conditions -- though occurring subsequently to the time of their appearance on this continent -- as that of the miniature forests of "samphire," or small saline plants, which spontaneously made their appearance about the salt-works of Syracuse, when conditions actually favored.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquaevitae, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
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They gather driftwood for fuel and share a dinner of roast pigeons and boiled samphire.
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We should be using more traditional ingredients such as kale, samphire and asparagus in our cooking.
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And just last week I made an abalone dish with sea beans samphire, salicornia -- the plant has many names and New Zealand spinach I'd foraged within yards of the shore.
Stephanie J. Stiavetti: An Interview With Hank Shaw, the Hunter/Angler/Gardener/Cook
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Green samphire tickles the saltmarshes, glistening channels weave through the mudflats and tall marram grasses sprout from the dunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or boil them with capers, samphire, mace, nutmeg, spinage, endive, and a rack or chine of mutton boil'd with them.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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The chef's special was Brochettes of scallops and prawn on a bed of green leaves and samphire grass.
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Don't say 'larks!'" implored Amy, as a return snub for the 'samphire' correction.
Little Women
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And just last week I made an abalone dish with sea beans samphire, salicornia -- the plant has many names and New Zealand spinach I'd foraged within yards of the shore.
Stephanie J. Stiavetti: An Interview With Hank Shaw, the Hunter/Angler/Gardener/Cook
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It would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort (given because it used to be burned to provide alkali for glass-makers).
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Also he ate a little of the bread he had brought with him; and with it some of a brisk juicy herb, called samphire, that sprouted richly in the cliff, which gave his meat an aromatic savour; and with a drink of fresh spring water he dined well, and was content; then he climbed within the cave, and fell asleep to the sound of the wind buffeting in the cliff, and the fall of great waves on the sea beaches.
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset
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Marsh samphire, as noted above, is also known as glasswort from its former use in soda glass manufacture.
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The promontory on which Sorrento stands is barren enough, but southward rise pleasant cliffs viridescent with samphire, and beyond them purple hills dotted with white spots of houses.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three samphire baskets over high cliffs.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Sailing and fishing trips can be organised, but the emphasis is on simple pleasures: beachcombing, foraging for berries and samphire, swimming, birdwatching and nature walks.
Summer holidays: 10 best places for under-fives
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Marsh samphire is more salty than rock samphire and does not have the same powerful aroma.
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Pickled samphire was once so popular and saleable in England that men risked their necks to collect it from the cliffs.