Lettuce Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash each leaf of lettuce separately.
Shake off excess water.
Cut or tear the leaves into large pieces.
Serve
Mix with French dressing just before serving.
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 provides its texture.
- French dressing
- Adds moisture, acidity and flavour that coat the leaves.
The step that matters
Shake off excess water. Leftover water dilutes the dressing and makes it slide off the leaves, and wet leaves wilt faster. Drying the leaves well lets the dressing cling and keeps the salad crisp.
“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.
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