Lettuce Chicken Salad
A historical recipe from My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various.
A historical recipe
My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various. Project Gutenberg eBook #21826.
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From My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #21826 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21826). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- a teaspoon of white sugar
- two teaspoonfuls of made mustard
- four eggs
Method
- MRS.
- Having skinned a pair of cold chickens, either mince or divide into small threads.
- Mix with it a little smoked tongue or cold ham, grated rather than chopped.
- Have ready one or two fine fresh lettuces, washed, drained and cut small.
- Put the cut lettuce in a bowl, place upon it the minced chicken in a close heap in the centre.
- For the dressing: the yolks of four eggs well beaten, a teaspoon of white sugar, a little cayenne, no salt: if you have ham or tongue with the chicken two teaspoonfuls of made mustard, two tables of vinegar, and four tables of salad oil.
- Stir this mixture well, put it into a small saucepan and let boil three minutes (not more), stirring it all the time, then set to cool, when quite cold cover with it thickly the heap of chicken in centre of salad.
- To ornament it have ready one half dozen hard boiled eggs, which after the shell is peeled off must be thrown directly into a pan of cold water to prevent discoloring.
- Cut each egg (white and yolk together) lengthways, into four large pieces of equal size and shape, lay the pieces upon the salad all round the heap of chicken in a slanting direction.
- Have ready also some red cold beet, cut in small cones of equal size, arrange them outside the circle of egg.
- This salad should be prepared immediately before dinner or supper.
- The colder it is the better.