Egg and Beetroot Salad

Ingredients

• Hard-boiled eggs
• beetroot

Method

1. 1

   Cut hard-boiled eggs and beetroot in round thin slices and arrange alternately on a dish with the French salad mixture poured over.

2. 2

   Tomato may be used instead of the beetroot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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