Caroline Conran

To make a salad

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

  • About

By the Rev. Sydney Smith, an early nineteenth-century wit and ‘bon viveur’

Follow the ‘Smith of Smiths’ poetic instructions by pureeing the ingredients in a liquidizer to make a heavenly dressing for any salad, or simply use it for cooked vegetables or hard-boiled eggs.

Ingredients

  • 2 small boiled potatoes
  • 1 teaspoon made mustard
  • 2 pinches

Method

Two boiled potatoes strained through a kitchen sieve

Softness and smoothness to the salad give;

Of mordant mustard take a single spoon,

Distrust the condiment that bites too soon;

Yet deem it not, thou man of taste, a fault,

To add a double quantity of salt.

Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown.

And twice with vinegar, procured fro