Name: Meat and Potato Salad
Ingredients: 1 teaspoonful chopped pars- ley; 1 onion

Meat and Potato Salad

A salad of cold sliced meat and cold boiled potatoes, flavoured with parsley and onion and dressed with salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

Meat and Potato Salad

Ingredients

1 teaspoonful chopped pars- ley
1 onion

Directions

Cut cold meat in thin slices, then cut in small squares.
Cut the same quantity of cold boiled potatoes in thin slices.
Add 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley and a piece of 1 onion and mix.
Pour a salad dressing over it.

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Onion: Adds a sharp, aromatic flavour that brightens the savoury meat and potato.
Parsley (in the method): Adds a fresh, herbal aroma and a little colour to the salad.

“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.