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French Tomato Salad

From The Common sense recipe book (1895).

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A historical recipe

The Common sense recipe book (1895).

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. one cupful 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. Remove the skins from smooth ripe tomatoes, halve and arrange carefully on a platter or flat glass dish almost smothered in chopped ice.
  2. Leave in a sauce dish, a dressing made of one-half of a cup light brown "sone LUBY 'S wan nenewen sugar, one cupful vinegar, with saitand pepper to taste.
  3. As each plate of the tomato is served pou.
  4. some dressing over, as the tomato loses iis flavor when the dressing remains on any time.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From The Common sense recipe book (1895), printed page 110, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cihm_01519

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.