Lentil Salad

Although Arabs and Indians dote on them, and quite a few Europeans make a staple soup of them, lentils have never caught on too well with Anglo-Saxons and Celts. Mrs. Beeton, in her 1861 cookery book, speculates, “Although these vegetables are not much used in this country [England], yet in France, and other Catholic countries, from their peculiar constituent properties, they form an excellent substitute for animal food during Lent and maigre days. At the time of the