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Oyster Salad

Ingredients

• 24 small oysters
• a little salt
• 1 tablespoonful of vinegar
• 2 heads of cabbage lettuce
• mayonnaise

Instructions

Boil oysters for five minutes in water enough to cover them; add salt and vinegar; drain and cool. Put into a salad-bowl the centre leaves of the heads of cabbage lettuce, add the oysters whole, pour over them a mayonnaise; garnish with oyster-crabs, hard-boiled eggs, and, if liked, a few anchovies cut into fillets.

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Source

Fifty Salads (1885).