Lamb’s Lettuce Salad with Smoked Capon and Nuts

Ritscherli Selaat mit Verennert Haahne un Nisse

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Preparation info
  • 4 to 6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1993

  • About

As botanist William Barton remarked about lamb’s lettuce (Valeriana radiata) in the eighteenth century, “It is cultivated in great abundance in all the kitchen gardens near the city [Philadelphia] and is to be found plentifully in our markets, during nearly the whole year. Often met with in the fields west of the Schuylkill.” Lamb’s lettuce is also known as corn salad. It was at one time the most important Pennsylvania German salad green after lettuce. Today it is ge