That evening Madame asked for her chicory water, and as soon as she drank it she cried out that she was poisoned.
The delicate light-blue flowers of the chicory are very abundant here.
The use of chicory is, however, more or less recognized.
Those who prefer chicory with their coffee have to pay a heavy duty; but the Belgian farmer is allowed and the British farmer is forbidden to take up a paying and profitable industry!
The cultivation of chicory was absolutely forbidden by the Inland Revenue Department; but a considerable amount is still grown in Belgium and is imported to this country.
At one time chicory was grown in Essex and other English counties, and was a distinctly profitable crop.
Chicory roasted with coal, steaks and chops grilled over an open fire, thus obtain a minute arsenical dosing.
The Magdeburg chicory is the variety usually spoken of, it being the one most extensively grown.
This and the common wild chicory are often dug in the fall, the leaves cut off, the roots packed in sand in a cellar and watered until a new growth of leaves starts.
On creole gumbo and oysters a la Rockefeller, and baked pompano and little shrimp fried crisp in olive oil and chicory salad and seven different kinds of cheese and wine.
I'd had dinner at Antoine's and stopped around at the Old Absinthe House for a few drinks, then strolled down to the French Market for a cup of chicory coffee and some doughnuts.
There are also various kinds of “Extracts” and “Essences” of coffee, and even humble chicory may sometimes be seen without disguise and nicely put up in yellow papers.
A little chicory gives as dark a color and as bitter a taste as a great deal of coffee.
The more caking and discoloration, the more chicory and the less value.
Ground coffee is extensively adulterated, and mainly with the much cheaper Chicory or Wild Endive.
Chicory grains are dark, gummy, soft, and bitter; coffee grains are hard and brittle; a small amount put in the mouth will demonstrate the difference.
When a sample of adulterated coffee is thrown in water the pure coffee floats and leaves the water unstained; chicory sinks almost instantly, coloring the water, while peas and beans sink more slowly but also color the water.
Chicory will often adhere to the wheels of a coffee grinder, clogging them on account of its gummy consistency.
Chicory is the most frequently used adulterant; it is added for flavor and to produce a darker infusion, thus giving the impression of greater strength.
The chicory sinks at once, whereas the coffee floats for a while because it is oily.
Chicory is really an impurity, though it is one often asked for by coffee-drinkers.
It is easy to detect the amount of chicory present in a sample of ground coffee, by throwing a little of the mixture on to water.
Here is a worthy neighbor of mine whom I hear every summer complaining of the chicory plants which disfigure the roadside in front of her windows.
Mr. Chicory loved his wife almost as much as Mrs. Chicory loved her husband.
They had lived together for nearly forty years, and every Saturday morning throughout that long time Mr. Chicory had faithfully handed over to his wife his entire earnings, which were not much, and deducted only 5s.
Illustration: "Mr. Chicory loved his wife almost as much as Mrs. Chicory loved her husband.
Each week a small sum was deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank, and when Mr. Chicory died, not only had he to the credit of this account a balance of L108 0s.
This method, generally known, is at the present time practised throughout the whole of Europe; and wild chicory root then opened for Liege a new branch of commerce.
In Belgium, in the province of Liege, coffee is mixed with wild chicory root.
Chicory in small quantities is not injurious, but you need not pay the coffee price for it.
Grind your coffee, and mix it with chicory for yourself.
Put chipped potatoes at the ends of the dish and a boiled chicory at either side.
The above recipe can be used for chicoryas well as for endive.
Tom separated thechicory roots from the stalks and Archer went to wash them in the stream.
Let's have a drink and give me a couple of those chicory roots, and I'll show you something," Tom said.
They made a sumptuous repast of wet, crisp chicory roots and "pearrl-bearing mussels" as Archer insisted upon calling them, although they found no pearls.
From each chicoryroot he cut a plug such as one cuts to test the flavor of a watermelon.
Sacks of beans and tons of chicory are bought without a scruple, and stored unblushingly in the warehouses of coffee and spice millers.
If it contains chicory it will rapidly absorb the water, and, sinking to the bottom of the glass, communicate a deep reddish brown tint as it falls.
A favorite French mixture of coffees is one-third each of Java, Mocha, and Maracaibo, with at least an ounce of pure chicory to each pound of coffee.
The addition of chicory to coffee gives it a rich color and pleasant flavor; it is best to make the mixture at home, buying the chicory from some reliable dealer.
If it is pure it will rise to the surface and scarcely color the liquid; if chicory is present it will sink to the bottom and the water will be tinged of a deep red as before.
Yet it has been proven that chicory produces heartburn, cramps, and, finally, total blindness.
Chicory is generally used with coffee in the proportion of two ounces of chicory to one pound of coffee.
They sat down just below my nook, and began to count the petals of a chicory flower, and slowly she nestled in to him, and he put his arm round her.
Monsieur Legue's conclusion is, poisoning by sublimate poured into the famous chicory water.
Legue relies for his diagnosis of poison by sublimate, and which he borrows from the account of the Abbe Bourdelot, occurred, not after the drinking of the cup of chicory water, but before.
We are thus bound to acknowledge that the famous chicory water could not have been poisoned.
Writers are unanimously agreed about the fact that Madame could only have been poisoned by the glass of chicory water given her by Madame de Gamaches.
Madame had been taking chicory water for several days in the evening, and this evening she drank it as usual.
Professor Brouardel writes: 'If the chicory water had contained the smallest dose of sublimate, Madame would have pushed the glass from her after the first sip.
As she was speaking to her, Madame de Gamaches brought to her, as well as to me, a glass of chicory water that she had asked for some time before.
Madame certainly did not drink 200 grammes of her chicory water; she took a few sips only.
Continue the boiling and evaporation until the intensity of the flavor and aroma of the coffee and chicory has been diminished to a proper degree; then set aside to cool.
The Magdeburg Chicory is the variety usually spoken of, it being the one most extensively grown.
This and the common wild Chicory are often dug in the fall, the leaves cut off, the roots packed in sand in a cellar and watered until a new growth of leaves starts.
Philippina stood it for a while in silence; finally she said to her mother: “I can’t stand this chicory brew forever.
Jason Philip cast a gloomy look into space, while Theresa, then sipping her chicory coffee, set her cup on the table, and looked at the man with scornful contempt.
Let's go in and look up chicory and succory in the encyclopedia.
Pointing at the sprays in her corsage he went on: "That's what the country people often call the chicory weed in France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chicory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beverage; drink; herb; vegetable; weed
