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French Spring Salad

From Recherché side dishes for breakfast, luncheon, dinner, and supper (1894).

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A historical recipe

Recherché side dishes for breakfast, luncheon, dinner, and supper, by Charles Herman Senn (1894).

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. two tablespoonfuls of salad oil

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

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  2. This salad is composed of the tender blades of 3^oung maize, red wheat, or Indian corn, dandelion leaves, and seedling lettuce.
  3. Shred the lettuce leaves finely;
  4. chop up coarsely the tender blades of maize, wheat, or corn, adding some finely minced onions and the dandelions.
  5. Put all in a salad bowl, and mix with two tablespoonfuls of salad oil, one of vinegar ;
  6. season with pepper, salt, prepared mustard, a little chopped mint and tarragon, and mix well together.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

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

From Recherché side dishes for breakfast, luncheon, dinner, and supper (1894), printed page 150, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/recherchsidedi00senn

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.