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Lettuce or Green Salad with Egg Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 pcs lettuce
• 2 pcs hard-boiled egg yolks, finely mashed
• 4 tbsp oil
• salt (not too much)
• vinegar (not too much)
• mustard (to taste)
• pepper (to taste)
• salad herbs (tarragon, onion tips, borage) (a little)

Instructions

1. Remove the outer green leaves, take out the ribs from the large leaves, carefully checking for snails, and break the heart into small leaves.
2. Rinse the salad and mix with the following sauce: For four people, finely mash two hard-boiled egg yolks, add four tablespoons of oil, not too much salt and vinegar, some mustard and pepper to taste, and some finely chopped salad herbs such as tarragon, young onion tips, and borage.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.