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Celery Salad

A simple salad made from celery, seasoned with salt and dressed with salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Celery Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the green leaves and any rusty spots from the celery.

  2. Wash the celery thoroughly.

  3. Split the celery in half or quarters.

Serve

  1. Arrange the celery in a fan shape in a salad bowl.

  2. Add your choice of salad dressing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Celery
Provides the crisp texture and fresh, mildly vegetal flavour that forms the body of the salad.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture and flavour, coating the celery and seasoning it at serving.

“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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