Lettuce Salad. ✠
- 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.
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.
Or,
You can dress on the table with oil and vinegar only, pulling the heart of the lettuce out with your fingers, and seasoning to taste.