Fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass.
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At the beach, scour the rock pools for samphire or similar sea vegetable.
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Gently place the samphire in a bowl of water and leave to rest.
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Outside the wall the samphire and orach beds are wholly marine.
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We found it half-way down the cliff, hidden behind a patch of samphire.
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At the Ethicurean they pickle everything from cherries to samphire with dried galangal.
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Saint Anne's wort, a humble creeper, the samphire-anemblem of poverty.
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Make sure you come home to bring me samphire and anything else I crave.
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Add the samphire to the sauce at the end to heat through and serve.
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The different vegetables met with were scurvy grass, wild celery, spinach, endive, and samphire.
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This was completed by a lobster sauce, with brown shrimps and samphire as a garnish.
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The genius touch is the strands of pickled samphire.
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Passing along samphire flats and over red sand-hills, we got within a mile of the lake.
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On the shore, sprouting amongst the sand and gravel, I found samphire, growing somewhat like asparagus.
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Personally, I recommend the samphire with brown shrimp.
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Travelled over a miserable country, with saltbush of various description, and samphire, and small stones occasionally.
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Like Shakspeare's samphire-gatherer, they have a dreadful trade!