Daisy Salad

Ingredients

• Fill an oblong shallow dish
• place a thick mayonnaise over them
• yelks from 8 hard-boiled eggs
• the whites in long thin strips

Method

1. 1

   Fill an oblong shallow dish with crisp white lettuce leaves; place a thick mayonnaise over them.

2. 2

   Arrange in the centre a nest of small leaves, leaving a hole, which must be filled with the yelks from 8 hard-boiled eggs, pressed through a potato masher.

3. 3

   Shred the whites in long thin strips, and strew around the yelks to form the petals of the daisy.

4. 4

   Serve dressing with each plate of salad.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Daisy Salad. Fill an oblong shallow dish with crisp white lettuce leaves; place a thick mayonnaise over them. Arrange in the centre a nest of small leaves, leaving a hole, which must be filled with the yelks from 8 hard-boiled eggs, pressed through a potato masher. Shred the whites in long thin strips

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