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French Salad

From Modern domestic cookery (1853).

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A historical recipe

Modern domestic cookery, by Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828 author (1853).

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. 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar

Cook safely

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

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • 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.
  • 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. Chop 3 anchovies, a shalot, and some .
  2. parsley small, put them into a bowl with 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, 1 of oil, a little mustard, and salt.
  3. When well -mixed, add by degrees some cold roast or boiled meat in very thin slices;
  4. put in a few at a time, not exceeding 2 or 3 inches long.
  5. Shake them in the seasoning, and then put more ;
  6. cover the bowl close, and let the salad be prepared 3 hours before it is to be eaten.
  7. pi ftalian Salad is made by picking the white portion of a cold fowl from the bones in small flakes, piling it in the centre of a dish, and pouring a salad mixture over, enriched with cream ;
  8. make a wall around with salad of any kind, laying the whites of the eggs, cut into rings, on the top in a chain.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From Modern domestic cookery (1853), printed page 328, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/moderndomesticco00rund

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.