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sallet
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tags: [archaic] [food]
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Definition:a salad. This is not a bland, modern "iceburg lettuce" recipe, but often a complex recipe involving many ingredients which usually includes salad greens. Robert May's 1660 The Accomplisht Cook offers an entire section of sallet variations:
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an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation; but call'd it an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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