Russian Salad

Ingredients

• Potatoes
• Carrots
• Turnips
• Artichokes
• Cauliflower
• Spanish onions
• Capers
• Olives
• warm in butter
• half a pint of cream

Method

1. 1

   Cut the vegetables into small shapes.

2. 2

   Parboil, drain dry, warm in butter, drain again, and let them cool.

3. 3

   Prepare dry plain biscuits by soaking and coloring with spinach.

4. 4

   Beat four yolks of eggs with oil and mustard, stir in the biscuit preparation, and half a pint of cream.

5. 5

   Add small bits of chicken, tongue, or fish.

6. 6

   Surround with aspic jelly and serve in a glass dish.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

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.

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, or, better still, a small ladleful of mint sauce, three table- spoonsful of oil, and frtsh lettuces enough to take up so much oil. 156 WINTER SALAD. Potato and Truffle Salad : called a la Demidoff. Rub the bowl with oil. Lay a row of slices of cold potato (the best potatoes are those that were done in the oven), and then a row of slices of truffle, cut very thin. The best truffles are those that have been cooked in white wine and allowed to get cold. Alternate layers of these should finish by one of truffles. Put all round tiny white onions and stoned olives

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