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Potato Salad with Mayonnaise

A historical recipe from Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes, by Janet McKenzie Hill (1899).

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A historical recipe

Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes, by Janet McKenzie Hill (1899). Project Gutenberg eBook #19077.

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.

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a spoonful of the potato
  2. a teaspoonful of mayonnaise above

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • 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. Boil the potatoes and let cool without paring.
  2. Then remove the skins and cut into slices, balls, or cubes.
  3. Squeeze over them a little onion juice, sprinkle with fine-chopped parsley, and let stand in a French dressing several hours.
  4. Mix the dressing after the usual formula, and use enough to moisten well the potato.
  5. When ready to serve, make nests of heart leaves of lettuce, put a spoonful of the potato in each, with a teaspoonful of mayonnaise above, sprinkle the mayonnaise with capers, and press the quarter of a hard-boiled egg into the top of the mayonnaise.
  6. Or add the chopped white of egg to the potato before marinating, and sift the yolk over the mayonnaise.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes, by Janet McKenzie Hill (1899). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #19077 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19077). 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.