Work Break: Salad Recipes?

[callistotoni]

OK all you cooks out there, can you suggest sources for 16th C salad recipes? I know from my reading that salt, oil and vinegar play prominant roles, but JIMR tells me that there is much variation as to what can go into such salads (such as meat and fruit). If I was going to wing it are there greens that I should avoid because they are new world?

Dreaming away about serving luncheon at my pavillion. :-) 16th C Slackers unite!

Comments

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Bummer. I don't know enough to discern an acceptable cutoff date ("This was published in the 17th C but we're confident it was done in the 16th C") and not ("Published in the 17th C and we think it's limited to that century"). I know our English Country dances are Playford, which is 17th C but for whatever reason we think they are OK for the SCA.

I'm going to try the second salad at home anyway, 'cause it sounds good. And I've been thinking about trying to serve something different at my place when people come over to sew. :-)

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, it's a great recipe. Just post-period, is all. Strictly speaking, English Huswife is also post (pub date 1615) but it's so similar to 1580-1590s cookbooks that we generally don't worry about it.
There's a compound sallet of capers and olives recipe that I'll try to remember to find for you when I get home...