[Sca-cooks] (no subject)

[Daniel Myers]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 5:23 AM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Stefan wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone else have some references to specific period salad
>> dressings? I've got a fairly large salad file in the Florilegium.
>> Perhaps it would be nice to have a companion, salad-dressings-msg file
>> if enough of such things exist.
>
> The several recipes i'm familiar with say to dress the greens with 
> oil, vinegar, and salt (and maybe pepper). I recall it specifically 
> from Form of Cury (on my website, but inaccessible until Feb 1 because 
> usage has exceeded my allotted bandwidth), and ISTR it in other later 
> cookbooks.

Is this the one?

Salat. XX.III. XVI. Take persel, sawge, garlec, chibolles, oynouns, 
leek, borage, myntes, porrectes, fenel and ton tressis, rew, rosemarye, 
purslarye, laue and waische hem clene, pike hem, pluk hem small wiþ þyn 
honde and myng hem wel with rawe oile. lay on vynegur and salt, and 
serue it forth.
[Forme of Cury]

- Doc


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