Name: Lettuce Salad
Ingredients: head lettuce; 2 tablespoons salad dressing

Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

head lettuce
2 tablespoons salad dressing

Directions

Remove the waste leaves from the head of lettuce.
Halve small heads and quarter large ones as desired.
Serve on individual plates with 2 tablespoons of salad dressing on each.

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

Head lettuce: Forms the bulk of the salad, providing crisp texture and fresh body.
Salad dressing: Adds moisture, fat and seasoning that coat the leaves and carry flavour.

“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.