Pompeian Salad Recipes

An olive-oil importer's 1920 salad book, from the years when a salad was still an argument that had to be won.

HomeRecipes › Stuffed Tomatoes

Stuffed Tomatoes

Peel sound tomatoes, and scoop from stem end a part of center.

Place them on ice and just before serving fill with celery cut fine and mixed with mayonnaise. Put a little mayonnaise on lettuce leaves and place the stuffed tomato on the dressing in the center of each leaf.

Tomatoes may be stuffed in the same way with chopped veal, celery and veal or chicken, celery and sweetbreads or chopped hard-boiled eggs and shredded lettuce.

A very pretty salad may be made by preparing the tomatoes as above, The highest medical authorities are unanimous in their praise of olive oil. partly filling them with mayonnaise and pressing into each one half of a hard-boiled egg, letting the rounded top rise a little above the tomato, and serve on lettuce leaves as above. 3. 3. 8.

← Tomato SaladsTomato and Lettuce Salad →