Salad and a Vegetable Compote (The
Forme of Cury , ca. 1390)Salat: Take parsley, sage, garlic, scallions,
onions, leeks, borage, mints, young leeks,
fennel, cress, new rosemary, purslane;
wash them clean; pick them and pluck
them small with your hands, and mix them
well with raw oil. Lay on vinegar and salt,
and serve it forth.
Compost: Take root of parsley and parsnip,
scrape them and wash them clean. Take
turnips and cabbages pared and cut. Take
an earthen pan with clean water, and set it
on the fire. Cast all these things in. When
they are boiled, add pears and parboil them
well. Take these things out and let them
cool on a fair cloth. Put in a vessel and add
salt when it is cold. Take vinegar and
powder and saffron and add. And let all
these things lie there all night or day. Take
Greek wine and honey clarified together,