Endive

Ingredients

• water
• a tiny piece washing soda
• endive
• 1 tablespoonful olive oil
• 1 tablespoonful vinegar
• a dash cayenne
• 1/2 teaspoonful sugar
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 clove garlic

Instructions

1. Have water boiling hot and salted, then add a tiny piece of washing soda.
2. Wash the endive and throw it into the boiling water.
3. Boil the endive slowly for ten minutes.
4. While the endive is boiling, take one tablespoonful of olive oil and heat it.
5. Add one tablespoonful of vinegar, a dash of cayenne, half a teaspoonful of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and one clove of garlic chopped very fine to the hot oil.
6. Let this mixture simmer for five minutes.
7. Drain the water from the boiled endive.
8. Pour the endive onto a serving dish and pour the hot vinaigrette over it.
9. Serve.