Salad with Smoked Salmon

Ingredients

• lettuce (especially small French ones)
• slices of smoked salmon
• finely-chopped parsley
• dried capers
• a few olives
• anchovies

Method

1. 1

   Arrange the lettuce in the center of the dish, cover with mayonnaise sauce, and place the smoked salmon around the base.

2. 2

   Garnish with parsley, capers, olives, and anchovies for decoration.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Common-sense papers on cookery (1880) by A. G. Payne, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

slices ot smoked salmon — and smoked salmon, lettuce (es- pecially small French ones), and mayonnaise sauce make one of the nicest salads that can be got— the following is the best method of preparing a really or- namental dish : — Pile the lettuce up in the centre of the dish as high as possible, and so arrange it that the outer leaves are smooth and uniform ; cover these leaves entirely with the sauce, using if possible a silver knife or ivory paper-knife for the purpose; place the slices of salmon neatly round the base of the salad, which ought in appearance to resemble a mould of solid custard. Ornament the sauce by drop- ping on little pieces of finely-chopped parsley, and stick- ing in a few dried capers, and stick a little sprig of bright-green parsley on the top ; a few olives and anchovies

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