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Tomato Salad

From Fifty dinners, 1895

Serve on a slice of bread to absorb the juices.

Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty dinners (1895) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pound of tomatoes ; slice them up in a salad-bowl, sprinkling over them a dessert-spoonful of finely minced chives or red shallot and a teaspoonful of minced tarragon. Give them a dust of salt, and grind some black pepper over them freshly. Lubricate the mass with the best salad oil, and sharpen it with a dessert-spoonful of tarragon vinegar

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