finnocchio

English

Noun

finnocchio

1. Rare spelling of finocchio.
   • 1919, Edward Loomis Davenport Seymour [ed.], Farm Knowledge (Doubleday, Page), volume 2, page 360

     Finnocchio (Florence fennel), p. 367

   • 1923, Gardeners’ Chronicle of America, volume 27, page 4:

     It is pleasing to note an increased interest in Finnocchio or Florence Fennel excellent as a salad and very good cooked or served naturally like celery.

   • 1936, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, Herbs and Herb Gardening (Medici Society), page 93⁽¹⁺²⁾

     ⁽¹⁾ Sweet Fennel (Fœniculum dulce) or Finnocchio, still one of the most popular vegetables in Italy, was apparently introduced into this country in early Stuart times.

     ⁽²⁾ Our native Fennel thrives in any soil, but Finnocchio needs a rich moist soil, frequent watering in times of drought, and when the bases of the stems swell they have to be partially earthed up, i.e. the tubers half covered.

   • 1943, Jo Pagano, Golden Wedding (Random House), pages 84⁽¹⁾ and 268⁽²⁾

     ⁽¹⁾ There were bowls of dried olives, swimming in olive oil and flavored with garlic and orange peel; there was celery, and sweetly aromatic finnocchio, and wafer thin Italian ham.

     ⁽²⁾ This was a big room, and my mother’s pride. It opened directly onto the back yard, where stood the stone oven, old-country style, in which my mother, once a week, baked her bread, and where she had her own little garden of fresh spices and Italian greens — basilica, finnocchio, Italian parsley, leaf-chicory, and so on.

   • 1945, Iles Brody, The Colony, Greenberg, page 228:

     Season and sauté a chicken in butter; add a little cream and three quartered finnocchio (already parboiled).

   • 1947, Norman Mosley Penzer, The Book of the Wine-Label (Home & Van Thal), page 115

     Sweet fennel (Foeniculum dulce) or Finnocchio appears to have been introduced into this country in early Stuart times and is a delicious vegetable if cooked in a good stock and served with a cream sauce.