621. Plain Salad

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (7)
salad base
dressing
Instructions (5)
  1. Cut the lobster up in a salad-bowl.
  2. Sprinkle over it a teaspoonful of salt, half that of pepper, one of chopped tarragon or chervil, or parsley, if nothing better, four tablespoonfuls of oil, and two of common vinegar, but only one and a half if French.
  3. Add the salad.
  4. Stir lightly round with a wooden knife and fork.
  5. It is ready.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
621. Plain Salad.—Take a lobster and any kind of salad, wash it well, dry in a cloth, cut the lobster up in a salad-bowl, sprinkle over it a teaspoonful of salt, half that of pepper, one of chopped tarragon or chervil, or parsley, if nothing better, four tablespoonfuls of oil, and two of common vinegar, but only one and a half if French, add the salad, stir lightly round with a wooden knife and fork, and it is ready.
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