folser...salads...Miss Berry's Herb

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Miss Berry's Herb salad

 

 

 

This wonderfully varied, refreshing green salad can be

strewn with whatever herbs are available. If you live in the

country, a few wild leaves can be added for good measure -

wild sorrel, herb burnet and a few sprigs of watercress would

all be good additions.

 

Hard boiled eggs - 2

Chicory heads - 2

Lettuce - 1

Mixed mustard and cress - 1 punnet

Parsley, tarragon, chervil, chives - 4-5 sprigs of each, as

available

Onion - 1 tbsp, finely chopped

Single cream - 4 tbsp

Tarragon vinegar - 1 tbsp, or white wine vinegar

English mustard - 1 tsp

Salt and freshly ground pepper

 

METHOD

 

1.Peel the eggs and chop coarsely. Wash the chicory, dry it and

break off each leaf separately. Place these all round the sides

of a salad bowl.

2.Wash and shake the lettuce and pile it up in the middle. Strew

on the mustard and cress, chop the chives and break up the

herbs into leaves and sprigs - sprinkle them over the greenery

in the bowl.

3.In a small bowl, combine the onion, cream, vinegar, mustard

and seasoning and stir well. Pour the mixture over and around

the salad just before bringing it to the table and scatter the

hard boiled eggs over the top.

[Guest guest]

Will try a version of this. I am lucky enough to have lots of 'miners lettuce' growing wild. Patty

This wonderfully varied, refreshing green salad can bestrewn with whatever herbs are available.