Celery Salad

Ingredients

• Grate a cocoanut
• pour over it i pint of boiling water
• a tablespoonful of grated onion
• i tablespoonful of lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Grate cocoanut and pour boiling water over it.

2. 2

   Let cool, squeeze dry, and strain the milky water.

3. 3

   Cut celery fine, add grated onion, cayenne, and salt.

4. 4

   Pour cream from coconut milk over celery and add lemon juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicate dishes (1896), page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CELERY SALAD. Grate a cocoanut and pour over it i pint of boiling water; let it stand until cool, squeeze the cocoanut dry, throwing it away. Strain the milky water and let it remain until a cream rises. Cut the tender white parts of celery quite fine and put in the salad bowl, scatter over it a tablespoonful of grated onion, a dash of cay- enne and a little salt. Skim the cream from the cocoa- nut milk and pour it over the celery; add i tablespoonful of lemon juice

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