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Shrimp Salad

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

Send salad sauce to table in a boat.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1792. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shrimp Salad.— Shell a quart of freshly- boiled shrimps, and pile them in the centre of a dish. Boil three eggs hard, and mince the whites and yolks separately. Sprinkle the whites round the shrimps, place a single row of green capers next, and then the chopped yolks. Surround the whole wdth lettuces cut into quarters and with water- cresses, and garnish the dish with gherkins and boiled beet-root, or little pieces of pickled red cabbage

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