SC - On a Tangential, OT Note - Was: Potato salad+pasta salad- the mild ...

[Aelfwyn@aol.com]

>The salad had sliced horseradish in it, which I know is a period vegetable
>but am still a bit dubious about our adding it to a salad. Would they have
>done that? I know salads are supposed to 'open the stomach' with their
>'wetness', so would they have added a 'hot' food to it? (I'm assuming
>horseradish is of a hot humor)


If your source mentioned horseradish in salad, it is more likely the
*leaves* of the horseradish which were mean, as I believe I have seen period
references to using them thus (I can't recall the exact source right now,
but I can track it down if you wish).

Francesco Sirene

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