Ham Salad

Ingredients

• one pint sour cream
• half pint good vinegar
• a small piece of butter
• sugar
• a small tablespoonful of mustard
• the well-beaten yolks of two eggs
• Cut up small bits of boiled ham

Method

1. 1

   Cut up small bits of boiled ham, place in salad-bowl with the heart and inside leaves of a head of lettuce.

2. 2

   Make dressing by mixing sour cream, vinegar, salt, butter, sugar, and mustard in a saucepan; boil, add the yolks of eggs, stirring carefully until it thickens to the consistency of starch.

3. 3

   Set in a cool place or on ice, and when cold pour it over the salad and mix well.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HAM SALAD. Cut up small tits of boiled ham, place in salad-bowl with the heart and inside leaves of a head of lettuce. Make dressing as follows: Mix in a sauce-pan one pint sour cream as free from milk as possible, and half pint good vinegar, salt, a s-inall piece of butter, sugar, and a small tablespoonful of mustard mixed smooth; boil, add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs

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