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Lettuce Cups

Lettuce cups are made by folding lettuce leaves into cup shapes, securing with toothpicks, chilling, and filling with salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Lettuce Cups

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Take large lettuce leaves and fold pleats in the edges to form cup shapes.

  2. Use cut Japanese toothpicks to secure the pleats.

Chill and serve

  1. Chill the cups in a cold place.

  2. Fill with salad just before serving.

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

Large lettuce leaves
Form the edible cups that hold the salad filling.

“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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