chiccory

It is a truly grotesque vegetation, whose forms and color we see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable leaves; destined perhaps, under some circumstances, to become a puzzle to future geologists.

Walden 2004

In such processes as the roasting of coffee, chiccory, grain, etc., a diffused heat is necessary, but of much greater intensity than can be obtained with economy from heated air.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

Shortly after Habakuk comes forward with a kitchen-knife, {445} with which he is going to cut chiccory in the garden.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

In such years as these, Hero, when our brave soldiers must have coffee or we can have no victories, coffee costs me and Lois fifty dollars, -- cheap at that, -- for, without it, did we drink dandelion like the cows, or chiccory like the asses, how were these brains renewed?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

In this the Yankee gives another illustration of the ruling passion strong in money making, which gives us wooden nutmegs, wooden hams, shoddy cloth, glucose candy, chiccory coffee, oleomargarine butter, mineral sperm oil made from petroleum, and beeswax made without bees.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

"To see the havoc he's making in the ham and eggs and chiccory is to be convinced that there is no appetizer like regret for the sufferings of others."

A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878

Bread and coffee, chiefly chiccory, make one meal; bread alone is the staple of the others, with a bit of meat for Sunday.

Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future Helen Campbell 1878

Nothing could have been prettier, sweeter, or better suited to the place; all was very simple, and apparently the whole place was hospitably free to the poor women who ranged over it, digging chiccory for salad out of the meadows.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

Coffee, with an admixture of genuine chiccory (which we take care to procure by purchasing the article in its raw state, and having it roasted the same as coffee), was preferred to coffee in its pure state.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

We do not advocate secret adulteration, but we would have the adulteration to be made open, and all people to understand distinctly that since chiccory is altogether wholesome it is a matter that depends upon the taste and the pocket whether they will buy coffee pure or mixed.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863