Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 809
809—Mayonnaise de Saumon
Garnish the bottom of a salad-bowl with moderately seasoned, ciseled lettuce. Cover with cold, cooked and flaked salmon, thoroughly cleared of all skin and bones.
Coat with mayonnaise sauce, and decorate with anchovy fillets, capers, stoned olives, small slices or roundels or quarters of hard-boiled eggs, small hearts of lettuce, a border of little roundels of radish, &c.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 809, p. 277. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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