Madame's Salad

Ingredients

• the yolk of a fresh egg
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a teaspoonful of pepper
• a teaspoonful of mustard
• two teaspoonsful of vinegar
• three tablespoonsful of oil

Method

1. 1

   Put the yolk of a fresh egg in the salad bowl, and beat in it a teaspoonful of salt, pepper, and mustard.

2. 2

   Add two teaspoons of vinegar and three tablespoons of oil.

3. 3

   Beat and work all together.

4. 4

   Tumble in the lettuce, and roll it round till it has worked up all the sauce.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Madame's Salad, or that which a French lady, if she has two or three guests at table, prepares with her own hands. The lettuce has been cut ajid washed not more than an hour before dinner — and here let us mention that a salad cut early, and left in the scullery till 7 P.M., will never be a good thing, though it might have been had it not left the garden till the gardeners were ' coming off work ' at 6 P.M. Five minutes in very cold water is a good thing for lettuces ; they must then be placed in a wire basket, which is shaken so as to get rid of every drop of water which may ad- here to the leaves. Madame's Salad. Put the yolk of a fresh ^gg in the salad bowl, and beat in it a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of pepper, and a teaspoonful of mustard. Add two teaspoonsful oi vinegar and three tablespoonsful of oil. Beat and work all together. Tumble in the lettuce, and roll it round and round till it has worked up all the sauce. Russian Salad. Cut into small shapes the following vegetables : RUSSIAN SALAD. 355 Potatoes Carrots Turnips Artichokes Cauliflower Spanish onions Capers OHves Parboil ; drain dry ; warm in butter ; drain again ; and let them cool. SHAPES OF CUT VEGETABLES. Prepare the day before some dry plain biscuits by soaking and colouring with spinach. Pass through a tamis. Beat four yolks of eggs up with oil and mustard, and stir in the biscuit preparation, and half a pint of cream ; add some small bits of chicken, tongue, or fish. Surround with aspic jelly and serve in a glass dish. July Salad. Some slices of cold potato and of green chilies, half as many slices of beetroot, and twice as many slices of cucumber ; two teaspoonsful of vinegar

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