For both English and Italian banquets there's plenty of documentation for fruits, and a little for exotic veggies like artichokes. Pickles might be an option, I'll check...nope. Looks like Markham does not mention them*, but I'll look for other sources.
*Markham’s Banquets Page 121/section 190 Ordering of banquets Thus having showed you how to preserve, conserve, candy, and make pastes of all kinds, in which four heads consists the whole art of banqueting dishes, I will now proceed to the ordering or setting forth of a banquet; wherein you shall observe that the marchpanes have the first place, the middle place, and the last place; your preserved fruits shall be dished up first, your pastes next, your wet suckets after them, then your dried suckets, then your marmalades and goodinyakes, then your comfits of all kinds; next, your pears, apples, wardens baked raw or roasted, and your oranges and lemons sliced; and lastly your wafer cakes. Thus you shall order the in the closet; but when they go to the table, you shall first send forth a dish made for show only, as beast, bird, fish, or fowl, according to invention: then your marchpane, then preserved fruit, then a paste then a wet sucket, then a dry sucket, marmalade, comfits, apples, pears, wardens, oranges, lemons sliced; and then wafers, and another dish of preserved fruits, and so consequently all the rest before; no two dishes of one kind going or standing together, and then will not only appear delicate to the eye, but invite the appetite with the much variety thereof.
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Re: Er, being that it's Laina...
Date: 2013-04-01 08:31 pm (UTC)*Markham’s Banquets
Page 121/section 190
Ordering of banquets
Thus having showed you how to preserve, conserve, candy, and make pastes of all kinds, in which four heads consists the whole art of banqueting dishes, I will now proceed to the ordering or setting forth of a banquet; wherein you shall observe that the marchpanes have the first place, the middle place, and the last place; your preserved fruits shall be dished up first, your pastes next, your wet suckets after them, then your dried suckets, then your marmalades and goodinyakes, then your comfits of all kinds; next, your pears, apples, wardens baked raw or roasted, and your oranges and lemons sliced; and lastly your wafer cakes. Thus you shall order the in the closet; but when they go to the table, you shall first send forth a dish made for show only, as beast, bird, fish, or fowl, according to invention: then your marchpane, then preserved fruit, then a paste then a wet sucket, then a dry sucket, marmalade, comfits, apples, pears, wardens, oranges, lemons sliced; and then wafers, and another dish of preserved fruits, and so consequently all the rest before; no two dishes of one kind going or standing together, and then will not only appear delicate to the eye, but invite the appetite with the much variety thereof.