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French Salad

From Cooking school text book (1888).

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A historical recipe

Cooking school text book, by Corson, Juliet, 1842-1897. [from old catalog] (1888).

France

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

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a tablespoonful of vinegar

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 1 pt.
  2. watercress Scents.
  3. 1 head lettuce 5 " Materials for Salad Dressing - - - 5 «* (1.) Thoroughly cleanse the cress and lettuce, shake them dry in a clean towel, arrange them in a sahid bowl, and pour over them the following dressing.
  4. (2.) Mix together a tablespoonful of vinegar, two of oil, a level teaspoonful of salt, and quarter of a saltspoonf ul of pepper;
  5. pour it over the salad and serve it at once.
  6. The salad wilts by standing after it has been dressed.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From Cooking school text book (1888), printed page 188, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cookingschoolte00cookgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.