Egg and Bacon Salad

The British egg salad holds the reputation of floppy salad leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, radish and beetroot (that stains everything else), all bound with bottled salad cream. I think we’ve moved on from those days, but salads were once a great feature of British cookery. Hard-boiled eggs have been used in salads since Elizabethan times, in the forerunners of the great composite salads of the seventeenth century. The base of the salads would be flowers and leaves, perhaps some cucumber, dress