[Sca-cooks] Re: Lettuce

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach <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that had been replaced by lettuce.

Yes, I see that, now. Lettuce instead of onions in the first line in
the Pegge edition? I was wondering... I thought maybe another word
beginning with "L" had been assumed to be lettuce, given that it is a
salad recipe. Happily, I was wrong ;-)

Adamantius