Plain Salad

Ingredients

• 1 lettuce
• mustard (the vegetable)
• cress
• salad sauce (see page 130)

Method

1. 1

   Cleanse the vegetables, break off each leaf of the lettuce carefully; cut or break them across in small pieces; wash these pieces again in cold water; drain them and toss them in a dry towel to dry.

2. 2

   Arrange the lettuce, mustard, and cress according to taste.

3. 3

   Just before serving, add the salad sauce and sprinkle the chopped hard boiled white of egg over the salad.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school cookery book (1881), page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Salad.— Required: 1 lettuce; mustard (the vegetable) ; cress; salad sauce (see page 130)

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.