SC - Spring Foods Brain Buster

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on  4 Mar 98, that L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt 
wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone has found a recipe for FRESH
> GREENS served in the way of a modern salad.
> A) Has anyone found a recipe or reference to serving fresh, raw
> greens (with acoutrements) such as we find in a modern salad?
 
> Aoife

I do not have a salad recipe per se, but some information on which 
vegetables were eaten raw in 15th century Spain.  The _Arte Cisoria_, 
 written in 1423, is a carving manual which explains the proper way 
to cut up a wide variety of foodstuffs.  Here is a list of vegetables 
which are eaten uncooked.  (Note that some veggies were to be served 
either raw or cooked in various ways.)

Carrots
Parsnips
Artichokes
Lettuce (the author explains how to cut lettuce, then specifies that 
the ones which are to be cooked do not need cutting.  From this I 
gather that some lettuces were eaten raw.)
Turnips -- sometimes eaten raw, when tender.
Radishes -- sprinkled with salt after cutting to release their 
juices

There is no mention of combining vegetables into a salad, nor of 
dressings, but then, this is a carving manual and not a cookbook.

Lady Brighid ni Chiarain of Tethba
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
mka Robin Carroll-Mann *** harper @ idt.net
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