Not many 400-year-old recipes have survived to our time, but even among their relatively small number, interesting, the best of the best can be distinguished, which fully reveal the completely unique style of English medieval cuisine. Below is a recipe for a delicious and healthy herbal-floral salad, which could be seen on tables in the Middle Ages among the rest of the variety of dishes, for example, during a medieval holiday, as a light snack. You don't need a lot of effort to prepare this wonderful vegetarian flavored salad.
It is necessary
- 1 small bunch of lettuce
- 1 cup watercress
- 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
- 1/4 cup fresh tarragon leaves
- 1/2 cup flower petals (rose, primrose, young garlic, calendula, nasturtium, and violet)
- 1 cucumber
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
Instructions
Step 1
Take lettuce, watercress, mint, tarragon leaves, wash and dry them. You can dry them with a kitchen paper towel.
Step 2
Pour rose, primrose, garlic, calendula, nasturtium, and violet flower petals into a salad bowl.
Step 3
Toss the chopped herbs and petals in a salad bowl with the chopped cucumber. If desired, the peel of the cucumber can be cut off.
Step 4
It remains only to add olive oil, vinegar, sugar and salt and lemon juice in the right proportion and the salad from the medieval world is ready. Chopped boiled eggs add nutritional value to the salad and make a great side dish.
