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French Lettuce Salad

A historical recipe from 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908).

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A historical recipe

365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908). Project Gutenberg eBook #10011.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. 1 tablespoonful of olive-oil
  2. 2 tablespoonfuls of white wine vinegar
  3. 2 hard-boiled eggs

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Take the inner lettuce leaves;
  2. sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  3. Mix the yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs with 1 tablespoonful of olive-oil and stir all together with 2 tablespoonfuls of white wine vinegar.
  4. Serve at once with meats.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #10011 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10011). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.