Ingredients:
Tomatoes, mayonnaise, shallot, horseradish, gherkin, anchovies, fish, cucumber,
lettuce, chervil, tarragon, eggs.
Preparation:
Mix the following ingredients:
two anchovies in oil boned and minced, a gill of mayonnaise sauce, a little
grated horseradish, very little chopped shallot, a little cold salmon or
trout, and a small gherkin chopped. With this mixture stuff some ripe tomatoes.
Then make a good salad of
endive or lettuce, a teaspoonful of chopped tarragon and chervil, season
it with oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper (the proportions should be three
of oil to one of
vinegar), put a layer of
slices of cucumber in the salad, place the tomatoes on the top of these,
and decorate them with hard-boiled eggs passed through a wire sieve. |