To make a Sallet of all kinde of hearbes.


Sallet of all kinde of hearbes.

Take your hearbes and picke them very fine into fair water, and pick your flowers by themselves, and washe them al cleane, and swing them in a strainer, and when you put them into a dish, mingle them with Cowcumbers or Lemmons payred and sliced, and scrape Sugar, and put in vinegar and Oyle, and throwe the flowers on the toppe of the sallet, and pf every sorte of the aforesaide thinges, and harde Egges boyled and laide about the dish and upon the sallet.

Source: Thomas Dawson, The Good Huswifes Jewell, 1596. 



 
 
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