Salade Chaude à la Flamande

Name: Salade Chaude à la Flamande (Hot Lettuce Salad)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Freshly ground pepper; Salt; ½ head lettuce, or enough to serve 6; 1 small onion, minced; Dash sugar; ¼ pound butter, softened, yet cool; 4 tablespoons cold water; 2 whole eggs; 2 tablespoons vinegar

Hot Lettuce Salad

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

½ head lettuce, or enough to serve 6
2 whole eggs
4

Europe
France
Flanders
Mediterranean
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Break lettuce into bite-sized pieces into a salad bowl.
Put eggs into top part of a double-boiler. Whisk together. Add water, vinegar, and onions. Heat-stir over simmering water until thickened. This will take about 10 minutes. (If you have a small enameled saucepan, this sauce can be made directly over very low heat in just a few minutes. Make it first in a