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Salad Dressings
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Published 1975
Lettuce is much used in Salets in the Summer tyme, with vinegar, oyle and sugar and salt, and is formed to procure appetite for meate, and to temper the heate of the stomach and liver.
Cogan, Haven of Health
Gerard mentions more than thirty salad herbs as being in general use in the sixteenth century:
- thyme
- violet
- Spanish nut
- a kind of floare de luce
- onions
- leeks
- chives
- garlic
- turnip tops
- lettuce, cultivated and wild
- beet
- spinach
- orach
- dock
- water pimpernel
- borage
- birnet
- sage
- nasturtium
- winter cresses
- rocket
- tarragon
- other cresses
- Succorie
- dendelion
- endive
- sorrel
- rampion
- purslane
- samphire
- watercress
- bugloss
- hop sprouts
- muskrose
- rosemary