In the winter they lived on chaff and orach.
"Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales"
Leo Tolstoy
The Stinking Goosefoot, called therefore, Vulvaria, and Garosmus, grows often on roadsides in England, and is known as Dog's orach.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie
With vinegar, honey, and salt, the orach Made hot, and applied, cures a gouty attack; Whilst its seeds for the jaundice, if mingled with wine, -As Galen has said-are a remedy fine.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie