Red and White Salad
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- lettuce hearts
- butter
- grape-fruit pulp
- 1 red beet
- oil
- lemon juice
- Tarragon vinegar
- cheese straws
- cracker
Instructions
- Make cups from lettuce hearts and fasten them to the plate with a drop of melted butter.
- Fill lightly with grape-fruit pulp, and set a tiny red beet, boiled tender, in the middle.
- Have a very sharp French dressing made with oil, lemon juice and Tarragon vinegar.
- Pass with this cheese straws, or toasted cracker sprinkled lightly with Parmesan cheese.