Gay and appetising salads arranged on individual dishes provide the ideal hot-weather lunch or supper, or the nucleus of a ‘help-yourself ’ buffet. Combine well-chosen ingredients to give the maximum interest, and arrange them on bright, colourful plates.
The general advice about keeping green leaves crisp is less relevant decades on, thanks to refrigeration at every stage of the supply chain, but is worth repeating:
Unless you are fortunate enough to have a supply of fresh green salad plants from the garden, you will often be faced with the problem of reviving a limp and wilted lettuce. Wash and shake the lettuce (or other salad plants) as directed above [that advice was not to soak the leaves], but leave some moisture on it. Put it into a mixing bowl, cover with a plate, put it in the coldest available place and leave it for an hour.
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