Name: Lettuce Salad
Ingredients: 1 head of lettuce; Thousand Island dressing

Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

1 head of lettuce
Thousand Island dressing

Directions

Chill the lettuce head.
Cut the lettuce into halves and place on plates.
Serve with Thousand Island 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

Lettuce: Provides the crisp, watery bulk that gives the salad its fresh texture.
Thousand island dressing: Adds creamy, tangy, slightly sweet flavour and moisture to the lettuce.

“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.