Being set over the fire, neither this nor the lettuce needs any other water than their own moisture to boil them in.
King Chambers has said (Diet in Health and Disease), "The consumption of Lettuce by the working man with his tea is an increasing habit worthy of all encouragement.
The Lactuca sylvatica is a variety of the wild Lettuceproducing similar effects.
This hint is given in view of the frequent occurrence of the large round worm in the labouring population of some agricultural counties, Oxfordshire for instance, where unwashed Lettuce is largely eaten.
By way of admonition as to care in preparing the Lettuce for table, Dr.
No attempt was made to cultivate the Lettucein this country until the fourth year of Elizabeth's reign.
The seeds of the garden Lettuce are emollient, and when rubbed up with water make a pleasant emulsion, which contains nothing of the milky, laxative bitterness furnished by the leaves and stalk.
The Romans, in the reign of Domitian, had the lettuce prepared with eggs, and served with the last course at their tables, so as to stimulate their appetites afresh.
The wild Lettuce is rather laxative; with which view a decoction of the leaves is sometimes taken as a drink [308] to remedy constipation, and intestinal difficulties, as also to allay feverish pains.
It belongs to the Composite order of plants, and contains the medicinal properties of the plant more actively than does the Lettuce produced for the kitchen.
Moisten with Cream Dressing and serve in nests of Lettuce or cabbage leaves.
Any girl who can successfully roll bread and lettuce is termed proficient by the cooking teachers, and it was a tie between Belle and Cora as to who did the most and best of the rolling.
With the lettuce came the greatest treat to the boys--homemade crab salad--home caught crabs and handmade dressing thereon.
Cut up the lettuce, and mix the chicken, celery, and lettuce together with the mayonnaise.
Cold neck of mutton and a lettuce can ill compete with the luxuries of Mr Boffin's board.
Mix all well together into a smooth stiff paste, and spread upon the slices, and form sandwiches, which may be eaten with watercress or lettuce or cucumber.
One scrambled or lightly poached egg with stale, yeast-made, wholemeal bread and nut butter, with lettuce or other salad food.
These Savoury Sandwiches can form a complete meal with a little salad (dressed with oil and lemon juice), or celery or lettuce or watercress or other salad material.
For those who find salads very difficult to digest, it is best to begin with French or cabbage lettuce and skinned tomatoes only, or, as an alternative, a saucerful of watercress chopped very finely, as one chops parsley.
One egg, toasted bread (wholemeal) and butter, with either a littlelettuce or marmalade and either weak tea or cocoa.
The caterpillar feeds on plants of the sowthistle (Sonchus) kind, also on garden lettuce and the wild species.
Under such artificial conditions it is said to eat lettuce and plantain.
She washed the lettuce and set it on the individual salad plates Helen found for her.
So the Sunday chicken and lettuce were badly spoiled, not to mention various tempers.
There was a brief, tense silence while the chicken, some white potatoes and onions, were put on to boil, sweet potatoes laid in the oven to be baked, and Clay sent into the garden for lettuce and radishes.
Turn all out of the mould, and serve garnished with lettuce leaves.
Slice hard-boiled eggs, arrange them upon crisplettuce leaves, and pour over all a mayonnaise dressing.
The third course may comprise chicken croquettes or rissoles, accompanied by lettuce or celery salad.
Mix this with half as much celery, if you can get it; if not, arrange it in the midst of crisp lettuce leaves.
Roast duck, turkey, or chicken may be provided if broilers are out of season, or birds may be served with a lettuce or celery salad for the third course.
This is made by cutting a number of slips of paper, writing on each one a prose or poetic quotation, and attaching each strip to a leaf of pale green tissue-paper, cut and crimped into the fashion of a lettuce leaf.
When perfectly cold cut it into neat slices; on each slice lay a sardine, and arrange the fish upon and among crisp lettuce leaves.
He wants the new heads of lettuce transplanted, and all the onions weeded," answered Mother Morrison.
He did not like to transplant lettuce and the onions must be weeded by hand.
Last time you crammed the lettuce plants in so hard they died over night.
It was a delicious salad, the cubes of the grapefruit being mixed with cubes of apple and of celery, garnished with cherries and served on crisp yellow-green lettuce leaves with French dressing.
From a bowl of lettuce she selected the choicest leaves for the plate before her; upon these she placed the fruit and celery mixture, dotted the top with a cherry and poured the dressing over all.
The celery and tomato seeds that he had planted during the first week of the month were showing their heads bravely and the cabbage and cauliflower seedlings had gone to keep the lettuce company in the hotbed.
Help cometh from afar: a strong man bringethlettuce wherewith to stay her, plucketh berries to comfort her withal, and clasheth cymbals that she may dance for joy.
When the wind bloweth in from the Orient, or when our discretion has collapsed before a lobster salad (that claw looked so innocently pink, and that lettuce so crisp and green!
If lettuce is to be used, a single leaf, several very small center leaves, or a small quantity of shredded lettuce will be sufficient, for a great deal of garnish is never desirable.
Tomatoes may be served whole on a lettuce leaf or they may be sliced.
Spanish onion 3 or 4 sweet pickles, chopped fine French dressing Salad dressing Lettuce Look the salmon over carefully, removing any skin and bones.
The bananas, after being cut in half lengthwise, are rolled in the peanuts, placed on a lettuce leaf, and served with dressing.
Cut the filled pepper into thin slices, place two or three of these slices on a salad plate garnished with lettuce leaves, and serve with French dressing.
When it is served, a leaf of the lettuce or other green used for garnishing should first be put on each salad plate and the salad should be served on this.
To vary the sandwich filling, a lettuce leaf may be placed on the buttered slice of the bread and the slice containing the filling put on top of this.
Use comparatively coarse leaves oflettuce and shred them.
Besides serving plain slices of cucumber on a lettuce leaf, as may be done at any time, cucumbers may be used as an ingredient in the making of many salads.
Place one-half of a pear with the hollow side up on a salad plate garnished with a lettuce leaf and the other half with the hollow side down beside it.
Lettuce used in this way makes a delightful addition to cheese, meat, egg, or vegetable sandwiches.
To prepare this salad, which is known as Easter salad, shred lettuce finely and place it in the shape of a nest on salad plates.
Put the slices of bread together, trim off the edges of the lettuce and the crusts if desired, and serve.
Arrange the flowerets on a salad plate garnished with lettuceand serve with French dressing or any other desired salad dressing.
Arrange on a bed of lettuce and garnish with beets and hard cooked eggs that have been chopped.
When ready to serve turn out on a bed of lettuce leaves and fill center with chopped celery well mixed with mayonnaise.
I hope you are not going to tell me that you cannot, or will not, make those lettuce cakes.
Nurse Jane will make some fine lettuce cakes, with clover ice cream cones on top," he said to himself, as he hurried along in his automobile.
These may be chicken, Neufchatel cheese, chopped almonds and Brazil nuts, peanuts, lettuce with white mayonnaise.
To cook lettuce you must fry a little ham; put a spoonful of vinegar into the gravy; cut the lettuce, put it in the pan; give it a stir, and then dish it.
Wash and break up the lettuce and put some of the bottom of a bowl.
Although this latter is to be obtained, yet in nine cases out of ten only the cabbagelettuce is procurable.
Pull the celery to pieces, wash it, and cut into small pieces; shred up some lettuce and lay it at the bottom the dish.
Do this alternatively, leaving plenty of lettuce for the top; garnish with hard boiled eggs cut into slices.
This lamb's lettuce is greatly appreciated on the Continent, and makes one of the best of salads, especially when mixed with celery.
Put a layer of lettuce at the bottom of the bowl, then one of fish and dressing.
Wash and cleanse the watercress and lettuce and cut into pieces.
Shred up the lettuce in a bowl and put the branches of cauliflower all round it, and the slices of yolk of egg outside as a border.
Take some slices of cold corned beef, dip them in a salad dressing, and lay them in a dish with alternate layers of lettuce leaves.
Of course all watercress should be thoroughly washed and then dried in a towel, like the lettuce for the salad, before it is eaten.
Cover with more lettuce and garnish with slices of lemon and red radishes.
The lettuce leaves, on being taken out of the towel, are then placed within the bowl, and over them is daintily spread whatever is required from each of the little heaps of herbs already referred to.
Pour over it some remoulade sauce and shred on top some nice white lettuce leaves; it may be garnished with beetroot or hard boiled eggs.
On making inquiries from the leading seedsmen throughout Australia, and asking what varieties of salad plants are mostly in vogue, you find that the cabbage lettuce is almost the sole representative.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lettuce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chink; currency; gelt; loot; lucre; money; vegetable
