a squeeze of lemon juice.

No. 177. Spinaci alla Milanese (Spinach)

Ingredients: Spinach, butter, Velute sauce, salt, pepper, flour, stock.

Wash three pounds of spinach at least six times, boil it in a pint of
water, then mince it up very fine, pass it through a hair-sieve, and put
it in a saucepan with one and a half ounces of butter, add a cupful
of reduced Velute sauce (No. 2) with cream, salt, and pepper, add a
dessert-spoonful of flour and butter mixed, and boil until the spinach
is firm enough to make into a shape, garnish with hardboiled eggs cut
into quarters, and pour a good Espagnole sauce (No. 1) round the dish.

No. 178. Insalata di patate (Potato salad)

Ingredients: New potatoes, oil, white vinegar, onions, parsley,
tarragon, chervil, celery, cream, salt, pepper, tarragon vinegar,
watercress, cucumber, truffles.

Steam as many new potatoes as you require until they are well cooked,
let them get cold, cut them into slices and pour three teaspoonsful of
salad oil and one of white vinegar over them. Then rub a salad bowl with
onion, put in a layer of the potato slices, and sprinkle with chopped
parsley, tarragon, chervil, and celery, then another layer of potatoes
until you have used all the potatoes; cover them with whipped cream
seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little tarragon vinegar, and garnish
the top with watercress, a few thin slices of truffle cooked in white
wine, and some slices of cooked cucumber.

No. 179. Insalata alla Navarino (Salad)

Ingredients: Peas, bean onions, potatoes, tarragon, chives, parsley,
tomatoes, anchovies, oil, vinegar, ham.

Mix a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a teaspoonful of chopped onion,
a teaspoonful of tarragon and chopped chives with half a gill of oil
and half a gill of vinegar. Put this into a salad bowl with all sorts of
cooked vegetables: peas, haricot beans, small onions, and potatoes cut
up, and mix them w ell but gently, so as not to break the vegetables.
Then add two or three anchovies in oil, and on the top place three or
four ripe tomatoes cut in slices. A little cooked smoked ham cut in dice
added to this salad is a great improvement.

No. 180. Insalata di pomidoro (Tomato Salad)

Ingredients: Tomatoes, mayonnaise, shallot, horseradish, gherkin,
anchovies, fish, cucumber, lettuce, chervil, tarragon, eggs.

Mix the following ingredients: two anchovies in oil boned and minced,
a gill of mayonnaise sauce, a little gra