Name: Water-cress Salad
Ingredients: young water-cress; salt; water; simple salad sauce

Water-cress Salad

Ingredients

young water-cress
salt
water
simple salad sauce

Directions

Prepare

Gather young water-cress.
Cleanse it thoroughly in salt and water.

Serve

Serve as fresh as possible in a bowl.
Mix with other salad plants if desired.
Toss lightly with a simple salad sauce.
For breakfast, serve fresh and crisp without mixing.

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

Young water-cress: Forms the main body of the salad, supplying crisp leaves with a peppery flavor.
Simple salad sauce: Coats the leaves lightly, adding moisture and flavor to the greens.

“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.