Dressing for Lettuce without Oil

Ingredients

• Mash smooth a hard-boiled egg
• an even teaspoonful of salt
• half a teaspoonful of mustard
• a dessert-spoonful of powdered sugar
• two table-spoonfuls of vinegar
• a gill of cream

Method

1. 1

   Mash egg with salt and mustard mixed with cold water.

2. 2

   Add sugar, vinegar, cream, and seasoning.

3. 3

   Serve sauce separately for better presentation.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a gill of cream, the same quantity of vinegar, a table-spoonful of sugar, an even teaspoonful of mustard, and a pinch of bruised celery -seed. Heat these condiments mixed together in a tin cup; put the slaw into a skillet, and pour the dressing upon it boiling hot ; stir it till well mixed and the cabbage slightly cod- dled ; then send it to table hot, and it is one of the most popular of dishes. Sauce for Salmon or Lobster. Mash the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs in two table- spoonfuls of vinegar, one of made mustard, half a teacup- VIRQINIA COOKERY-BOOK, 157 ful of sweet-oil, half a teacupfal of walnut or mushroom catsup, a teaspoonf ul of salt, and a sprinkling of Cay- enne pepper. All around the edges of a flat dish place fine lettuce-leaves ; heap up the salad in the centre, and garnish with sliced hard-boiled eggs. To Dbess Lettuce without Oil. Mash smooth a hard-boiled egg, with an even teaspoon- ful of salt and half a teaspoonful of mustard, first mixed with a little cold water; then add a dessert-spoonful of powdered sugar, two table-spoonfuls of vinegar

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