Regency Dish: Cooked Vegetable Salads and Small Shell Fish Salads

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Small Shell Fish Salads Prepare oysters cockles muscles lampets clams wilks scoops shrimps prawns & c each in their own proper way dress them high in a dish or over parsley garnish with jelly or a salmagundi serve with oil vinegar mace and pepper separately These salads may be served upon fried sippets or in crustades which is the Spanish mode Two or three kinds of this fish may be served together Cooked Vegetable Salads Cauliflowers French beans asparagus cut in peas arti choke bottoms roasted Jerusalem artichokes roasted onions small silver onions sea kale seorsonary cut in peas beet root turnips in balls the zest of carrots of the same size with farce or vegetable balls put into the rings of onions and carrots also rings mixed & c All vegetables for salads ought to be cooked in stock butter or cream If there is any cold fricasée or butter sauces serve them in sauce boats also oil and vinegar Castor oil is excellent for salad sauces both for digestion and flavour
Selon mon goût is made of various salad articles so that every one may take what they like best such as hard egg raspt ham minced chicken veal game or fish salad and savory herbs and pickles these are all minced separately They are then fancifully heaped in patches or moulded in compartments round the dish and gar nished with fillets of anchovy cray fish shrimps & c

L. (1827). Domestic Economy, and Cookery: For Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; Preparations of Broths and Milks for Consumption; Receipts for Sea-faring Men, Travellers, and Children’s Food : Together with Estimates and Comparisons of Dinners and Dishes …. United Kingdom: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.

I was fascinated by the recommendation to use castor oil for salad sauces, knowing it mostly as a medicinal oil used for its laxative effects or cosmetic application. There are some food grade castor oil today that are used in various additives and flavorings, and it has a tradition of being used, in small amounts in parts of India.  It has a nutty and rich flavor which probably did taste nice when combined with some vinegar on a cooked veggie salad.

 

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