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Dressing for Slaw or Lettuce

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 1

Sprinkle cabbage with half a teaspoon of turmeric.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRESSING FOR SLAW OR LETTUCE. Make a rich custard of one-half a tea'-cupful of new milk, the yelks of two eggs, and half a tea-cupful of sugar. Stir into the custard one table-spoonful of butter, one tea-spoon- ful of made mustard, half a tea-spoonful of salt, a dessert- spoonful of celery-seed, and one tea-cupful of vinegar

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