Name: Tomato and Water Cress Salad
Ingredients: 2 cups peeled, sliced tomatoes; 2 cups water cress, thoroughly washed; Salad dressing to taste

Tomato and Water Cress Salad

Ingredients

2 cups peeled, sliced tomatoes
2 cups water cress, thoroughly washed
Salad dressing to taste

Directions

Place the tomatoes in one bowl and the watercress in another.
Add salad dressing to each bowl.
Let the ingredients stand for five minutes.
Mix the tomatoes and watercress together and serve.

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

Tomatoes: Provide the main body, juiciness and mild acidity to the salad.
Watercress (in the method): Adds a peppery, fresh flavour and crisp leafy texture.

“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.