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Tacy's Caesar Salad

posted 10 years ago by crockett_john
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When Tacy is making her Ragu of Beef, she also makes a salad in a bowl big enough to serve a dozen people. I thought it was kind of gross that she was cracking raw eggs right into the bowl on top of the lettuce, but I looked it up and that seems to be an actual recipe from those days. Now, I think people would rarely eat raw eggs because of the salmonella. I remember people making cake icing from sugar and raw eggs, but that was in the 70s.

Also, those ingredients couldn't have been all that fresh to begin with. When Nicky was reading the manual in front of the car, the instructions said something about how you have to plug in at a trailer park and then go shopping for groceries.

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[–] arbilab 10 years ago

Eggs do need refrigeration. But in the 50s chicken farms weren't the salmonella factories they are today. I ate raw cake and cookie dough all my childhood and nothing bad ever happened.

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[–] pontipy 9 years ago

Raw egg is still found in dressings for Caesar salad. When I was pregnant I had to make sure it was substituted out at restaurants if I ordered the Caesar salad.

[–] tenement-funster 9 years ago

Mayonnaise is made with raw egg. It's not so rare to use it. A fair few chocolate mousse recipes call for raw eggs too. Salmonella in eggs is pretty unlikely these days, as the chickens are screened for it. There's slightly more risk if you use eggs from your own chickens, as obviously they're not screened, but my family have had their own chickens for probably forty years now, with no ill effects. The risk of salmonella has been massively exaggerated.

And eggs don't need refrigeration (although I say that as a Brit, and we don't tend to get very hot weather!). Never kept an egg in a fridge yet. They'll easily last two weeks at room temperature if fresh to begin with.

But yes, raw eggs in a salad does sound horrific!

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[–] mcdemuth 9 years ago

Also, those ingredients couldn't have been all that fresh to begin with. When Nicky was reading the manual in front of the car, the instructions said something about how you have to plug in at a trailer park and then go shopping for groceries.

Refrigerators are insulated... If you unplug a refrigerator, the items inside will still stay cold for quite a while, as long as you keep the door closed during the day...

If you drive for 8 to 10 hours, and then spend about 2 hours setting up and tearing down the hookups for trailers and motor homes, you still have a good 12 hours of it being plugged in and cooling.

Think about taking a cooler with drinks and sandwiches to a race track or sporting event during the summer... That is much smaller than a refrigerator, and you are constantly opening and closing it to snack outside, in excessive heat with the sun shining on it!

When I was growing up, My parents had a motor home, and we never opened the Refrigerator while we were in motion... So 8 to 10 hours of being sealed up, with it not sitting directly in the hot sun would not be so bad.

As soon as you get there you open it up, make dinner, and then leave it closed while you sleep to get it all nice and cool again. Eat Breakfast, and make sandwiches for lunch, close it up, and...

It really is not as bad as you think.