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Dressed Lettuce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Dressed Lettuce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove leaves from the stalk of the lettuce, discarding wilted outer leaves.

  2. Wash the leaves and keep them in cold water until crisp.

  3. Drain the lettuce and place it on a towel to remove excess water.

  4. Use a bag made from white mosquito netting or a wire basket to hang the lettuce in the lower part of the refrigerator to drain.

  5. Arrange the lettuce for serving in its original shape and serve with French 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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