The larger vegetables.
1809. Deeply skilled in the mystery of making apple sweetmeats, long sauce, and pumpkin pie.—W. Irving, ‘A History of New-York,’ i. 184 (1812).
1833. Here the soil’s so deep, one can’t raise any long sarce—they all get pulled through the other side.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ i. 209 (Lond., 1835).
1825. A quantity of long, short, and round sauce, or “sarse,” i. e. carrots, turnips, and potatoes.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 76.
1850. There were cabbages, white and purple; parsnips; turnips, long and round; carrots; potatoes, of a lage ‘kidney;’ in short, long and short saäse of every description.—Knick. Mag., xxxvi. 385–6 (Oct.).
1860. But perhaps, squash, long-necked squash, crooked-necked squash, cowcumber, beets, parsnip, carrot, turnip, white turnip, yellow turnip, or any sort of sass, long sass or short sass.—Id., lvi. 102 (July).
