SC - crats and prima donnas
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Tue Aug 29 10:20:49 PDT 2000
At 12:51 PM -0400 8/28/00, Jenne Heise wrote:
> > And sallats are not a very common feature
> > of medieval cooking
>
>Hm. Could you quantify that 'not very common'? Directions for making
>sallets and notes about ingredients for sallets do seem to show up enough
>to make one believe that they were among the food option during the
>appropriate months. I doubt they were as popular as 'white food' but are
>you saying that they were almost never eaten, or that they weren't eaten
>at every meal?
I don't have time at the moment to go through lots of sources, but
reading through the first five meals in Le Menagier I do not find any
mention of any salad or salad like dish. My casual impression is that
that is typical. Perhaps someone else has done a more careful
examination of the data.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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