String-Bean Salad

Ingredients

• 1 pint of string beans, cooked and cold
• 2 hard-boiled eggs
• A little lettuce, if you have it.
• French dressing

Method

1. 1

   Drain the beans well and sprinkle them with a little salt and pepper.

2. 2

   If they are canned, let them lie on a platter for at least an hour.

3. 3

   Arrange them on a few white lettuce leaves on plates, or omit the lettuce and use a few yellow celery leaves; put two strips of hard-boiled egg on the plate, one on each side of the beans, and, just before serving, pour a little French dressing over all.

4. 4

   This salad must be very cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

string-bean salad. That is very easy to make, and very good, too, and we can make it out of canned beans and nobody will know it. I will tell you how to make it now, because I '11 be so busy to-morrow, and then, in the afternoon, you can get it ready quickly. ' ' STEING-BEAN SALAD 1 pint of string beans, cooked and cold. 2 hard-boiled eggs. A little lettuce, if you have it. French dressing

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