Lettuce Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the lettuce
Select the crisp, center leaves of the lettuce head.
If necessary, rinse the lettuce without breaking the leaves.
Submerge the lettuce in cold water using a wire basket, then shake and dry each leaf on a soft towel.
Serve
Arrange the leaves neatly in a salad bowl.
Serve with a bowl of French dressing.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Lettuce
- Provides the crisp, fresh leaves that form the body of the salad.
- French dressing
- Adds acidity, fat and seasoning to the leaves when served alongside.
The step that matters
Dry each leaf thoroughly. Wet leaves dilute the dressing and cause it to slide off, so drying on a soft towel keeps the dressing clinging and the leaves crisp.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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