Water-cress Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Gather young water-cress.
Cleanse it thoroughly in salt and water.
Place it in a bowl, either alone or mixed with other salad plants.
Toss lightly in a simple salad sauce.
Serve fresh and crisp, especially at breakfast.
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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