Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

• Two heads of lettuce
• yolks of 2 hard boiled eggs
• a teaspoonful of French mustard
• pepper
• salt
• 4 tablespoonfuls of oil
• 1 of tarragon
• 1 of plain vinegar
• chervil
• garden cress
• tarragon

Method

1. 1

   Wash the lettuce, dry thoroughly, and break the leaves or cut them into convenient pieces.

2. 2

   Put the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs into a basin with French mustard, pepper, and salt; work into a smooth paste, adding oil, tarragon, and plain vinegar.

3. 3

   Stir well, then add the lettuce and mix.

4. 4

   Garnish with hard-boiled eggs.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lettuce Salad—lIngredients—Two heads of lettuce, yolks of 2 hard boiled eggs, a teaspoonful of French mustard, pepper and salt to taste, 4 tablespoonfuls of oil, 1 of tarragon, and 1 of plain vinegar, chervil, garden cress

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