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Russian Salad

From All about salads (1908).

Source and licence

From All about salads (1908), printed page 31, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AllAboutSalads

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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.

Russia. Associated with Russia by a demonym leading its title: RUSSIAN (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

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

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Chop fine four slices of bacon fried crisp, and about two cups of cold roast or boiled beef, one head of lettuce, and two cups of celery.
  2. Add one can of French peas, and marinate.
  3. When ready to serve, mix with mayonnaise, spread on a platter, and garnish with water cress.
  4. STUFFED EGGS (NO.
  5. 2) Take hard-boiled eggs, cut enough from the top of each to get out the yolk.
  6. Mix the yolks to form a paste with butter, cream, mustard, cayenne, salt and anchovies.
  7. Fill the whites of the eggs with this.
  8. Lay them on beds of lettuce or cress and pour over it a nice mayonnaise.