Name: Italian Salad
Ingredients: 8 to 10 mixed vegetables (your choice); 2 hard-boiled eggs; plain salad dressing

Italian Salad

Ingredients

8 to 10 mixed vegetables (your choice)
2 hard-boiled eggs
plain salad dressing

Directions

Arrange the mixed vegetables on a round plate in a wheel fashion.
Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half crosswise and place them in the center to represent a hub.
If using only 5 ingredients, shape the salad into stars or other shapes as desired.
Serve with plain salad 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

Mixed vegetables: Provide the crisp texture, fresh flavour and colour that make up the salad's body.
Hard-boiled eggs: Add a soft, creamy, mild contrast to the crunchy vegetables.
Plain salad dressing: Adds moisture and tang that brings the vegetables and eggs together.

“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.