SC - period salads

[Mark Harris]

Margaret said:

There are period recipes for herb salad that don't require cooking. 
Platina mentions eating various greens raw, including lettece, colewort,
endive, ox-tongue, purslain, and chicory.  

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Do you have some pointers to these recipes? Or even better some
good redactions? Salad recipes are likely to refer to obscure plants
or perhaps use obscure names for common plants and some interpretation
might be useful. Or perhaps an herb guide would be enough? For instance,
of the plants mentioned above, the only ones I recongnise are lettece
(and that may not mean the lettece I think of), endive and chicory.

The feast at the last Ansteorran coronation had a salad, but it looked
just like one I would get in a modern resturant. I would like to try a
medieval salad. Is iceburg lettece even period? Can anyone tell me
what they served on them? Oil and vinegar? Or something more of a sauce
like many modern salad dressings? Are these salad dressings in the
salad recipes or is there somewhere else to look for that?

Thanks.
  Stefan li Rous
  markh at risc.sps.mot.com


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