Bullocks Tea Room, the Bombay Salad

Name: Bullocks Tea Room, the Bombay Salad
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 salads, 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 cups small shrimp; 2 cups crabmeat, in chunks; 2 cups celery, thinly sliced; 1/4 cup parsley, chopped; 1/4 cup mayonnaise; 2 teaspoons soy sauce; shredded lettuce (to line plates); 1/2 cup oil; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/4 cup vinegar, white; 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 3 -4 drops red food coloring (optional); 1 tablespoon poppy seed

Submitted by lynnski LA

"This salad with its sweet, pink tinted poppy-seed dressing was a favorite with clients at the 1929 Art Deco Wilshire Store Tea Room. The store closed in the '90's and is now the home of the Southwest Law School. It's art deco decor has been preserved and the building is now on the National Register of Historic Places. This had been the most famous and expensive of the Bullocks stores, and had a clientel that included the rich and famous. The recipe had been published in the Los Angeles Times food section when the tea room was closed."

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Ready In:: 20mins
Ingredients:: 14
Yields:: 4 salads
Serves:: 4

ingredients

2 cups small shrimp
2 cups crabmeat, in chunks
2 cups celery, thinly sliced
¹⁄₄ cup parsley, chopped
¹⁄₄ cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons soy sauce
shredded lettuce (to line plates)
POPPY-SEED DRESSING
¹⁄₂ cup oil
¹⁄₂ cup sugar
¹⁄₄ cup vinegar, white
¹⁄₄ teaspoon dry mustard
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
3 -4 drops red food coloring (optional)
1 tablespoon poppy seed

directions

To make the dressing, set the poppy seeds aside and combine remaining dressing ingredients in a blender until smooth.
Turn dressing into a bowl, add the poppy seeds and mix.
Shred the lettuce and line 4 salad plates with the lettuce to make a base for the salad.
Gently, mix the remaining salad ingredients in a large bowl and serve 1/4 of the salad over each of the 4 salad plates lined with shredded lettuce.
Serve the salad with the poppy seed dressing on the side.

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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

lynnski LA

Los Angeles, CA

I live in a wooded hillside area of Los Angeles where it feels like being out in the country. I grew up in Rhode Island, and came to LA after graduating from URI. I recently retired from my job as an environmental specialist. So now I have time to collect internet recipes. My hobbies & interests are aquatics, shell collecting, my cats, feeding stray cats, home improvement projects and cooking. I love to travel and, years ago, lived in Mexico for several months. My favorite cookbooks are the ones written by Diana Kennedy; they are all great; and I have them all, some signed by her when I was enrolled in her cooking classes. I have a lot of cookbooks; some of my other fave authors and their books are: Madhur Jaffrey (especially World Vegetarian, World of East Vegetarian Cooking and A Taste of the Far East), Faye Levy, Martha Rose Shulman (especially Mediterranean Light, Provencal Light and Mexican Light) and Paula Wolfert.

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