Shrimp Salad

Ingredients

• One can of shrimps
• two heads of lettuce
• one gill of salad oil
• one tablespoonful of vinegar
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one-half teaspoonful of white pepper
• yolks of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Trim and wash lettuce, tearing outer leaves into pieces.

2. 2

   Place in a salad bowl, add shrimps, and prepare dressing by mixing egg yolks with salad oil until creamy, then add vinegar, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Pour dressing over shrimps, garnish with inner lettuce leaves, and serve without mixing.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHRIMP SALAD, 119 must be poured over the salad in the salad bowl, and the dish garnished with the fresh green leaves of the lettuce. Shrimp Salad. — One can of shrimps, two heads of lettuce, one gill of salad oil, one tablespoonful of vine- ' gar, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of white pepper, yolks of two eggs. The heads of lettuce should be carefully trimmed, well washed and thoroughly dried in a towel, avoiding as much as possible the crushing of the leaves, which causes them to wilt. They should next be picked apart, and the outer leaves torn into medium sized pieces, reserving the tender inner leaves for garnishing. Place the torn lettuce in the bottom of a salad bowl, and removing the shrimps carefully from the bag in which they are put into the can, take from them any bits of shell or specks of black that may mar them, taking care not to break their form, and pile these high upon, the lettuce in the centre of the bowl. Put the yolks of eggs into a small bowl, drop in upon them, drop by drop, the salad oil, and beat these to a thick cream when the vinegar must be added, also the pepper and salt, and all stirred together until thor- oughly blended. Pour this dressing over the shrimps, garnish around the sides and in the centre of the top, with the pale deli- cate inner leaves of lettuce and serve. This salad must not be mixed at all until it is served at table, as to stir it destroys the fine appearance of the shrimp, which are so delicate as to be easily broken. Notes — Mayonnaise dressing should invariably be stirred one 1 2d SALADS. way, as to reverse the current of the liquid causes it to curdle. If bjr accident curdling occurs, its smoothness may be recovered by drop- ping in the yolk of another egg, and paying strict attention to the rule of stirring. When fresh shrimps instead of the canned ones are used, a large saucepan of boiling water, in which has been placed salt, a little lemon -thyme, mint and bay-leaf should be prepared and the shrimps plunged into this, confined in a wire basket, and boiled until they change their color, the length of time for which depends upon the size of the shrimps. IiObster Salad. — One quart of brown stock, one half ounce of gelatine, one tablespoonful of vinegar

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