Lettuce Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the lettuce
Select the crisp, center leaves of the lettuce head.
If necessary, rinse the lettuce without breaking the leaves.
Place the lettuce in a wire basket and dip it in cold water.
Shake off excess water and dry each leaf on a soft towel.
Serve
Arrange the leaves neatly in a salad bowl.
Serve with a bowl of French dressing.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Lettuce
- Forms the crisp, leafy base of the salad and provides its fresh texture.
- French dressing
- Adds moisture, acidity and flavour to the leaves when served alongside them.
The step that matters
Drying each leaf. Excess water left on the leaves dilutes the dressing and makes it slide off, so the leaves should be dried gently on a soft towel without bruising or tearing them.
“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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