SC - Period cookshop at Pennsic?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Jenne Heise wrote:
> 
> All of these are fish menus, so we can conjectorure that the little old
> man who got married around 1393 and who lived in Paris, felt that greens
> should be served with fish, not meat, and probably thought of them as a
> Lenten dish.

It may also simply be a function of the fact that salad greens begin to
grow in the Spring, during Lent, just when a lot of medieval people were
beginning to suffer from things like scurvy and needed fresh vegetables
as a sort of tonic.
 
> A quick look in the OED suggests that at least by the 15th century it was
> a known dish if not common. Of course the term 'sallat' may not have come
> into the language for a dish of raw (or lightly cooked) greens much before
> then.

What language are we talking about ;  )  ? There is a sallat in the
Forme of Cury, and at least a couple in Platina, IIRC.

> Perhaps it was a renaissance fashion, to eat fresh greens in spring?

Certainly there are more salad recipes in later sources, but I don't
know that that is the sole reliable indicator.

Adamantius
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