SC - Period cookshop at Pennsic?

[david friedman]

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
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