reference: evelyn-1699

Mint sweets intended to be eaten after a meal.

Ashen-keys are the unripe winged seed pods of the Ash tree. Evelyn 1699 has them boiled and potted with wine-vinegar, sugar and water. (Family Guide 1747)

Whole large potato, baked, the top split and served with butter. Other toppings frequently encountered include baked beans, grated hard cheese, cottage cheese, ...

The water speedwell (Veronica beccabunga) formerly used in salads (Evelyn 1699).

Peeled burdock roots, soaked and sauteed. Served cold with breadcrumbs and sugar (Murrell, 1638)

Mashed carrots, set with crumb or egg, boiled or baked as a main meal accompaniment. "And so have you a Composition for any Root-Pudding" (Evelyn 1699)

The white clover (Trifolium repens), when used in salads.

Old term for any form of cabbage, later specifically for very young cabbage for salads.

A decoration for salads, or candied (Evelyn 1699)

Infusion of the 'peeps' (petals) of Cowslip (primula veris), with sugar, fermented. Moxon 1764 adds brandy and says "This is right good." (Evelyn 1699)

Sliced cucumber boiled in vinegar with hot spices such as mustard, garlic, ginger etc. to imitate mango pickle. From a time when mango pickle was a rare delicac...

Old term for strong meat broth (Evelyn 1699)

The leaves of the common dandelion are used raw in salads. Acton 1845 says that "The slight bitterness of its flavour is to many persons very agreeable; and it ...

Pignut plant and edible tuber

Early references are not to the modern Chinese Endive, but the indigenous wild chicory (Evelyn 1699, etc).

Rarely used now, flowers were once commonplace ingredients in salads - primroses, violets, bugloss and cowslips.

General term for sharp-scented flowers used as spicing - cloves, clove-scented pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus), wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri) or the white stock ...

Vinegar stored with whole herb sprigs- mint, rosemary, sage etc.

Young hop shoots, not the bitter flowers, quickly steamed or boiled. Usually served with butter.

A pungent herb, Alliaria petiolata, also known as Garlic Mustard, formerly used as a salad component (Evelyn 1699)

A plant of the Goosefoot or Atriplex family. (Evelyn 1699).

Chopped pennyroyal with breadcrumbs, suet, Sack, cream and eggs, boiled in a gut bag or baked (Evelyn 1699). Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) is a herb of the mint ...

Infusion of the leaves of the pennyroyal plant, "A most wholsome and excellent Tea" (Evelyn 1699) .

Asparagus in white-wine vinegar and salt (Evelyn 1699).

Beans in vinegar and salt, "range them Row by Row in a Jar ...Thus you may preserve French-Beans, Harico's, &c. the whole Year about" (Evelyn 1699)

Unripe buds of the common broom in salt and vinegar (Gent.Delight 1653, WM 1658, Evelyn 1699, etc)

Cornelians are the fruit of a variety of dogwood (Cornus mascula). They are "pickled like Olives" according to 'Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets' by John Evelyn...

Commonly pickled with dill in malt vinegar. (WM 1658, Evelyn 1699, etc)

"The abortive and after-Fruit of Melons being pickled as Cucumber, make an excellent Sallet." (Evelyn 1699)

Stalks of Golden Purslane, parboiled and preserved in vinegar with sugar (Murrell 1638, WM 1658, Evelyn 1699)

'Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets' by John Evelyn (Evelyn 1699) has; "Radish. The Seed-Pods of this Root being pickl'd, are a pretty Sallet"

Gerard 1597, Evelyn 1699, Eaton 1822, etc., all refer to Samphire as pickled with oil and vinegar as an accompaniment for meat, but it is thought that this use ...

The tomato-like fruits of the potato (the two are related) have been used in salads (Evelyn 1699, etc) but are now considered toxic.

The boiled young roots of the bellflower, Campanula rapunculus.

A peppery salad leaf (Eruca sativa), known at least since Digby 1669, but rather fallen from favour in the 19th Century, to be revived in the late 20th. cf. Hed...

A very varied mixed salad. Evelyn 1699 has almonds, pickled cucumbers, olives, cornelians, capers, Barberries, red-beet, nasturtium buds, broom, purslane, sampi...

A mix of fresh leaves with, for instance, tomato, onions, beetroot etc. Many earlier receipts (Robert May 1660, Francatelli 1852, Evelyn 1699) include mint leav...

Parsley, bay, thyme, rosemary.

Scurvy-grass, spoonwort, is Cochlearia a salt-tolerant herb of the cabbage family with sharp, bitter leaves used in salads and in seafood stews (Evelyn 1699). I...

Skirret or Crummock is a perennial plant of the Apiaceae family.

The wild Cichorium Intybus or chicory, "Cykorie or suckorie is lyke in operation to lettise." (Thomas Elyot, 'The Castel of Helth' 1539)

Stalks of the middle leaf of the Milky-Thistle.

The 'Trick-Madame' referred to as a salad in old texts may have been Stonecrop, Sedum reflexum.

Boiled as green vegetables. Known at least since Evelyn 1699. "They make very nice sweet greens, and are esteemed great purifiers of the blood and juices." (Eat...