Literary Salad
From What to eat, how to serve it, 1891
A fun activity that adds an unexpected feature to the high tea.
Presented as published in 1891. 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 What to eat, how to serve it (1891) by Christine Terhune Herrick, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
literary salad, which has become well known 276 HIGH TEA in certain localities, may yet be unfamiliar in others. This is made by cutting a num- ber of slips of paper, writing on each one a prose or poetic quotation, and attaching each strip to a leaf of pale green tissue-paper, cut and crimped into the fashion of a lettuce leaf.
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