[Sca-cooks] lettuce?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 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.

Sidelight: the Bayard translation of _Le Menagier de Paris_ (_A Medieval
Home Companion_) mentions sowing lettuce in March but doesn't mention
succession planting.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and
the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these
you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
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