Mortimer Salad

Ingredients

• a cold roast capon
• half a pound of salted cucumber
• half a pound of potatoes
• a quarter of a pound of minced red radishes
• a quarter pound of celery
• chervil and tarragon well chopped
• mayonnaise sauce
• artichoke bottoms
• slices of truffles
• slices of beetroot
• bits of gherkin

Method

1. 1

   Cut capon into slices, season with salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, and mustard.

2. 2

   In a salad bowl, mix cucumber, potatoes, radishes, and celery finely, season, and mix thoroughly.

3. 3

   Arrange capon on top of vegetables, cover with mayonnaise, and surround with artichoke bottoms and truffles.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mortimer Salad Have a cold roast capon, cut off the thighs and breasts, sup- press all the skin, fat and bones; divide the meat into slices three- sixteenths of an inch thick, and these into round pieces an inch in diameter; lay them in a deep dish and season with salt, pepper, oil, vinegar and mustard; put into a salad bowl half a pound of salted cucumber, half a pound of potatoes, a quarter of a pound of minced red radishes, a quarter pound of celery or celery tops and mince the whole very fine, season with this, chervil and tarragon well chopped, salt, pepper, vinegar and oil; then mix thoroughly; cut in eight pieces enough artichoke bottoms to form a border, dip the tips into finely chopped parsley; cut rounds of truffles one-eighth inch thick and about one inch in diameter ; lay the capon on top of the vegetables which have been previously arranged on the bottom of a cold dish ; cover this with mayonnaise sauce and surround the whole with the artichoke bottoms; inside this border lay symmetrically the slices of truffles and inside of these, slices of beetroot cut somewhat smaller than the truffles; on top ol this still smaller bits of gherkin

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