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Kräuter-Blumen-Salat I

England, 16. Jhd.

To Make a Sallet of all Kinds of Herbes and Flowers

Take your hearbes and picke them very fine into faire water, and picke your flowers by themselves, and wash them all cleane, and swing them in a strainer, and when you put them into a dish, mingle them with Cowcumbers or Lemmans payred and sliced, and scrape Suger, and put into vineger and Oyle, and throw the flowers on the top of the Sallet, and of every sorte of the aforesaid thinges, and garnish the dish about with the foresaide thinges, and hard Egges boyled and laid about the dish and upon the Sallet.

Thomas Dawson, The Good Huswifes Jewell, 1596; Ken Withers/Bill Gamber

Kräuter-Blumen-Salat II

Schottland, 14. Jhd

6 Portionen

Salat

Take persel, sawge, grene garlec, chibolles, oynouns, leek, borage, myntes, porrettes, fennel, and town cressis, rew, rosemaye, purslayne; lave and wasche hem clene.
Pike hem.
Pluk hem small with thyme hande, and mingle hem wel with rawe oile; lay on vynegar and salt, and serve it forth.

Historical note: This is the earliest salad recipe in English.
Mixed herb and flower salads proved so popular that they continued in fashion through to the 17th century.
The salad would change according to the season and what grew in each cook's herb garden, so adapt and experiment with the basic recipe as you wish, as long as the result is colourful.

Sara Paston-Williams, A Book of Historical Recipes