Vegetables Winter Salad

winter salad

(from the Cedar Falls Gazette, Cedar Falls, Iowa, January 3, 1862)

Ingredients:

2 large potatos​

1 spoonful mustard​

2 spoonfuls salt​

3 spoonfuls olive oil​

1 spoonful vinegar​

2 hard boiled eggs​

1 onion​

anchovy sauce​

Instructions:

Two large potatoes, passed through the kitchen sieve,​

Unwonted softness to the salad give.​

Of mordent mustard add a single spoon, -​

Distrust the condiment that bites so soon;​

But deem it not, oh man of herbs, a fault​

To add a double quantity of salt.​

Three times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown,​

And once with vinegar procured from town,​

True flavor needs it, and your poet begs​

The pounded yellow of two well boiled eggs,​

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,​

And, scarce suspected, animate the whole,​

And lastly, on the favored compound toss​

A magic teaspoon of anchovy sauce;​

Then, though green turtle fail, though venison's tough,​

And ham and turkey are not boiled enough,​

Serenely full of epicure may say -​

Fate cannot harm me - I have dined today.​

Not only is this recipe perfect for the season, it's a charmer just to read.

BTW - Oil of Lucca is olive oil

 

[donna]

A great find. Thanks for posting.