Lettuce Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Select the crisp part of the lettuce.
Soak it in cold water for 1 hour.
Dry the lettuce well.
Serve
Arrange the lettuce in a salad bowl.
Pour mayonnaise or French dressing over the center of the dish.
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
- Crisp lettuce
- Provides the crisp, fresh-textured base of the salad.
- Mayonnaise or french dressing
- Adds moisture, richness and flavour to the lettuce.
The step that matters
Dry the lettuce well. Excess water on the leaves dilutes the dressing and makes it slide off, so the salad turns watery. Thoroughly dried leaves let the dressing cling and stay flavourful.
“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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