Sunday Night Salad

Ingredients

• Select perfect leaves of a large head of lettuce
• add 1 finely-chopped onion
• 5 sliced tomatoes
• 3 or 4 watercress
• pour slowly about 4 tablespoons oil
• follow with 2 tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon of tarragon vinegar
• sprinkling with celery salt
• add a little cayenne

Method

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   Select perfect leaves of a large head of lettuce and shake dry, place in salad-bowl, and add 1 finely-chopped onion, 5 sliced tomatoes, 3 or 4 watercress, sprinkle salt and pepper over surface and pour slowly about 4 tablespoons oil over, then follow with 2 tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of tarragon vinegar, sprinkling with celery salt, add a little cayenne, and mix all with a wooden fork or spoon, turning all over ten or more times.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 332. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SUNDAY NIGHT SALAD.— Select perfect leaves of a large head of lettuce and shake dr}-, place in salad-bowl, and add 1 finely- chopped onion^ 5 sliced tomatoes, 3 or 4 watercress, sprinkle salt and pepper over surface and pour slowly about 4 tablespoons oil over, then follow with 2 tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of tarragon vinegar, sprinkling with celery salt, add a little cayenne

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