Name: Lettuce Salad
Ingredients: 1 head of lettuce; 2 tablespoons of salad dressing

Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

1 head of lettuce
2 tablespoons of salad dressing

Directions

Wash and dry the lettuce.
Tear the lettuce into bite-sized pieces.
Drizzle with salad dressing and toss gently.

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

Lettuce: Forms the bulk of the salad and provides its crisp, fresh texture.
Salad dressing: Adds moisture and flavor, coating the leaves as you toss 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.