French Salad

Ingredients

• two or three small French cabbage-lettuces
• enough parsley to cover a threepenny-piece
• three fresh mint-leaves
• half a salt-spoonful of salt
• quarter of pepper
• two tablespoonfuls of oil
• not quite half a tablespoonful of French white vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Wash the lettuces in cold water without drying them on a cloth.

2. 2

   Shake them dry in a wire basket and place in a salad-bowl.

3. 3

   Chop the parsley and mint, sprinkle over the lettuce.

4. 4

   Mix salt and pepper with oil in a tablespoon, pour over the lettuce, add more oil, and toss lightly for 2-3 minutes.

5. 5

   Add vinegar, mix for another minute, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Common-sense papers on cookery (1880) by A. G. Payne, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two or three small French cabbage-lettuces. Wash them, if necessary, in a little cold water, but do not dry them on a cloth, as you will thereby probably bruise them and spoil them. Shake them dry in a little wire basket ; or put them in a cloth, and take the cloth by the four corners, and make the lettuce- leaves jump inside ; then put them lightly into a salad-bowl. Next chop up enough parsley to cover a Savoury Summer Dishes. 125 threepenny-piece, and also chop three fresh mint- leaves, and sprinkle this over the lettuce. Next take a table-spoon, and place in it about half a salt-spoonful of salt, and quarter of pepper ; fill the table-spoon with oil. Mix up the pepper and salt with the oil, and pour it over the lettuce — I am supposing enough for about four persons — add half a table-spoonful more oil, and toss the lettuce lightly together for two or three minutes. Next add not quite half a table- spoonful of French white vinegar; mix it for a minute or two more, and it is finished. Now the difficulty in many households is to over- come the prejudice against the oil. Perhaps some one, when they have read this, will do as follows : First take care to have a fresh bottle of good oil ; then mix a salad as I have directed, without telling anybody how it is done. Let it be handed round at dinner- time, and wait and see what people say. If you tell them beforehand that there is nearly two table-spoon- fuls of oi

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