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