[Sca-cooks] lettuce?

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sat Jan 4 17:23:33 PST 2003


Also sprach jenne at fiedlerfamily.net:
>In the course of checking out what greens would be available at a
>particular season, I found that Hill (Gardener's Labyrinth, 1579?)
>suggests that you should do succession plantings of lettuce so as to have
>it all season. Do the menus we have found indicate that lettuce was used
>often in that time period?

Offhand, I don't remember seeing it on menus, but it does appear in
Tacuini Sanitatis.  I think it's a southern European thing (we know
the Romans ate it, for example). I'll see if I can find it in salad
recipes in sources like Markham.

Adamantius



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