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Celery Salad

Name: Celery Salad
Ingredients: 1 boiled egg; 1 raw egg; 1 tablespoonful salad oil; 1 teaspoonful white sugar; 1 saltspoonful salt; 1 saltspoonful pepper; 4 tablespoonfuls vinegar; 1 teaspoonful made mustard; celery

A historic early American dish of boiled egg, raw egg, salad oil, white sugar and vinegar. Adapted from Celery Salad, from Common Sense in the Household (1871).

Adapted from Celery Salad, in Common Sense in the Household (1871), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's Ye Old American Recipe Book collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/ye-old-american/recipes/celery-salad.md.

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Celery Salad

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Produce

celery

Dairy & Eggs

1boiled egg
1raw eggChecked by You

Oils & Vinegars

1 tbspsalad oil
4 tbspvinegar

Pantry / Durable

1 tspwhite sugar

Spices & Seasoning

1 saltspoonsaltChecked by You
1 saltspoonpepper
1 tspmade mustardChecked by You

Cooking Instructions

Prepare the dressing as for tomato salad
Cut the celery into bits half an inch long, and season
Eat at once, before the vinegar injures the crispness of the vegetable

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · Common Sense in the Household (1871; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)