SC - Spring Foods Brain Buster

[Woeller D]

> 
>         [Yeldham, Caroline S] 'For a Salade' is
> 
>         'buddes of Stanmarche, vyollete flourez, perceley, redmyntes, syves,
> cresse of boleyn, purselan, ramsons, calamyntes, prime rose buddus, dayses,
> rapouses, daundelyon, rokete, red nettell, borage flourz, croppus of Red
> fenell, selbestryune, chykynwede'
> 
>         the one that puzzled me was 'selbestryune', which John Harvey
> identifies as ? Herb Trinity, viola tricolour.

Also known as Helen Mount Viola, or popularly (around here, anyways) as
'Johnny Jump Up'. It is a hardy perennial, which looks like a miniature
purple, lavender and yellow pansy.  Seeds are fairly widely avaiable,
usually listed as Viola tricolor. They are a charming, easy to grow,
readily self-sowing flower (they can take on the propagation properties
of a weed, if you aren't careful) I have previously used the flowers as
a very pretty addition in salads, but a recent post on this list
identified pansies as poisonous, and I believe they are fairly closely
related, so I'm not sure if they're truly safe. If I find out more, I'll
pass it on.
Bon chance,
Angelique

> 
>         Lettuce (or letuse or letyse) does appear on the list, but under
> pottage.
> 
>         By John Aubrey's time (17th century) he identifies lettuce as the
> basis for any salad.
>
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