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Lettuce Salad

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896).

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A historical recipe

The Chicago Record cook book, by Chesbrough, Mary Mott, [from old catalog] ed (1896).

United States

Known as an American 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 5 ingredients

  1. one head of lettuce
  2. two tablespoons of olive oil
  3. one-half tablespoonful of vinegar
  4. one-half teaspoonful of salt
  5. a dash of cayenne pepper

Method

  1. In buying choose firm, crisp heads of lettuce.
  2. Let lie in running water for one hour, then wash well in ice water.
  3. This will insure its crispness.
  4. Wipe carefully and thoroughly in a napkin.
  5. To one head of lettuce the rule is two tablespoons of olive oil, one-half tablespoonful of vinegar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper.
  6. Rub the salad bowl with a split clove or garlic or bit of onion;
  7. add oil;
  8. dissolve salt and pepper in vinegar, add to oil, mix well, turn the lettuce into bowl, toss well and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Spatula
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Credit

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896), printed page 185, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/chicagorecordcoo00ches

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.