SC - Salt in Period recipes

[david friedman]

At 9:39 PM -0500 1/23/99, LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/23/99 2:45:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>renfrow at skylands.net writes:
>
><< There is no salt listed in the original mustard recipe. >>
>
>To my knowledge there are few recipes from the middle ages that list salt as
>an ingredient. I am of the opinion that this does not mean it wasn't used but
>rather that it was assumed that the cook would add it to taste. There are a
>couple of instances where this idea is intimated in period text but ,
>unfortunately the post to the list that spoke of this  seems to be lost in the
>jumbled file called SCA-cooks. :-(
>
>Does anyone recall what those references were or remember when/by whom they
>were posted?
>
>Ras

Platina says in one of the recipes in his chapter on sauces something to
the effect of "I don't bother to mention salt because everyone knows to put
salt in" (not an exact quote, but close).

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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