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Lettuce Salad

Name: Lettuce Salad
Ingredients: Two or three heads white lettuce; 2 hard-boiled eggs; 2 teaspoonfuls salad oil; ½ teaspoonful salt; 1 teaspoonful white sugar; ½ teaspoonful made mustard; 1 teaspoonful pepper; 4 tablespoonfuls vinegar

A historic early American dish of white lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, salad oil, white sugar and made mustard. Adapted from Lettuce Salad, from Common Sense in the Household (1871).

Adapted from Lettuce 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/lettuce-salad.md.

The dish

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Lettuce Salad

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Produce

2white lettuce

Dairy & Eggs

2hard-boiled eggsChecked by You

Oils & Vinegars

2 tspsalad oil
4 tbspvinegarChecked by You

Pantry / Durable

1 tspwhite sugarChecked by You

Spices & Seasoning

½ tspsalt
½ tspmade mustard
1 tsppepper

Cooking Instructions

Rub the yolks to a powder, add sugar, pepper, salt, mustard, and oil
Let it stand five minutes, and beat in the vinegar
Cut the lettuce up with a knife and fork,—a chopper would bruise it,—put into a bowl, add the dressing, and mix by tossing with a silver fork

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)