SC - Qata'if -- duck and bread

[david friedman]

At 12:58 AM -0500 8/30/00, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>David/Cariadoc said:
>>  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.
>
>Here are the period (note, period, not necessarily medieval) referances
>that include salads that I could find looking through my salads-msg file.

But the question is not whether salads existed in period (they did) 
but whether they were a common part of a meal. Le Menagier is 
interesting because it includes lots of listings of dishes for lots 
of different feasts. Judging by what a previous poster said, 
something under a quarter of them, all fish day menus, contained 
salads. And that's for feasts each of which contains a lot more 
dishes than an ordinary american meal.

It would be interesting to look through other collections of menus 
and see how common salads are.
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