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Italian Salad

A historical recipe from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining., by Edwords, Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) (1914).

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A historical recipe

Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining., by Edwords, Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #9464.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: raw egg. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. two salt
  2. six boiled potatoes
  3. two raw apples
  4. three boiled carrots
  5. one large boiled celery

Method

  1. Soak two salt herrings in milk over night and then remove the bones and skin and cut up in small pieces.
  2. Cut in small pieces one and one-half pounds each of cold roast veal and cold boiled tongue and add to these and the herrings six boiled potatoes, half a dozen small cucumber pickles and two small boiled beets, all cut up, and two raw apples, three boiled carrots and one large boiled celery root, all minced.
  3. Mix all the above in salad bowl and pour over it mayonnaise dressing.
  4. Garnish the tops with hard boiled eggs, sliced, and capers, and ripe olives from which the stones have been removed.
  5. Garnish the bowl with parsley and in the center put hard boiled eggs stuffed with capers.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining., by Edwords, Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #9464 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9464). 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.