Name: Lettuce Salad
Ingredients: 1 head of lettuce; French dressing or mayonnaise dressing

Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

1 head of lettuce
French dressing or mayonnaise dressing

Directions

Prepare

Wash the lettuce leaves carefully.
Drain the leaves.

Serve

Arrange the leaves in a salad bowl.
Pour over either French dressing or mayonnaise 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

Lettuce: Forms the crisp, leafy base of the salad and carries the dressing.
French dressing or mayonnaise dressing: Adds fat, acidity and flavour that coat the leaves and season 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.