[Sca-cooks] Re: Lettuce

[alysk at ix.netcom.com]

Re this recipe, Adamantius asked:

>>78  Salat.  Take persel, sage, grene garlec, >>chibolles, onynouns, leek,
>>borage, myntes, porrettes, fenel, and toun >>cressis, rew, rosemarye,
>>purslarye; laue and waische hem clene.  Pike >>hem.  Pluk hem smale
>>wi(th) (th)yn honde, and myng hem wel with rawe >>oile; lay on vyneger
>>and salt, and serue it forth.

>You know, I thought there might be a reference >to lettuce in the
>second recipe above, but I don't see any use of >the word at all.

>Confused...

So was I until I went to my copy of the book and found that in the notes, one
of the items  (I'm at work and don't have the book handy) was written as
"lettuce" in a different version of the manuscript.  I _think_ it was "onions"
that had been replaced by lettuce.

Alys Katharine