Jota meets buttered worts*

Last night we were casting around in the fridge for some vegetable to go with dinner, and ran into the greens I had prepped but never cooked to try out Jota, one of the greens dishes I was considering for my feast. So we did buttered worts:
2 quarts chard leaves, center stem removed
1 handful mint leaves
1 handful parsley

put in water to cover. Add butter. Cook until limp and dark green. drain and serve.

the mint flavored the chard just enough. YUM. We shall probably do this again.

(should I post the buttered worts recipe/redaction to my website?
Harleian 4016, Buttered Wortes:

Take al maner of good herbes that thou may gete, and do bi ham as is foresaid; putte hem om þe fire with faire water; put þere-to clarefied buttur a grete quantitie. Whan thei ben boyled ynogh, salt hem; late none otemele come there-in. Dise brede small in disshes, and powre on þe wortes, and serue hem forth. (Austin, 69) )

Hyll on starting cucumbers indoors

Thomas Hyll, The Gardener's Labyrinth

The Gardiner which would possesse Cucumbers timely and very soone, yea and all the yeare through, ought (after the minde of the Neopolitane [Rutilius?]) in the beginning of the the spring, to fill up old worne baskets and earthen pans without bottomes, with fine sifted earth tempered afore with fat dung, and to moisten somewhat the earth with water, after the seeds bestowed in theses, which done when warme and sunnie daies succeede, or a gentle raine falling, the baskets or pans with the plants, are then to be set abroad, to be strengthened and cherished by the sun and small showres; but the evening approching, these in all the cold season ought to be set under some warm cover or house in the ground, to be defended from the frosts and cold aire, which thus standing under a cover, or in the warme house, moisten gently with water sundry times, and these on such wise handle, untill all the Frosts, Tempests, and cold aire be past, as commonly the same ceaseth not with us, till abut the middest of May.
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Thomas Hill, The Gardener's Labyrinth. first published 1577. ed. by Richard Mabey from the 1652 ed. (NY: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 180.

Hyll on purslane

Thomas Hyll, The Gardener's Labyrinth

Purselaine helpeth swolne eyes, and the spitting of boode, it removeth the burning Fever, it quallifieth the heat of the stomacke, it stayeth Womens monethly course, it stayeth the bleeding at the NOse, ad the head ache, it extinguisheth the heat of the eyes, it stayeth Disenteria, it strengthneth both the Kidneyes and Bladder, it helpeth burning Febers, it killeth the wormes in the belly, and stayeth the spitting of blood; it helpeth excoriation in womens bowels, and the rawnesse of privy places; it helpeth the head ache, it mitigateth a furious heat, it helpeth the Navels of Infants, it stayeth the loose Teeth in the head, it asswageth the kernels and Ulcers in the mouth, it removeth warts; it asswageth the gout, and inflamation of the Paps, the fall of the Uvula &c."

p. 211
He also gives a recipe for pickling it for salads, like samphire.