If you want to make the salad look very pretty on the top, cut up the lettuces and dress them with oil and vinegar in the ordinary way.

Make the tops of the lettuces (which should be placed in a round salad-bowl) as smooth as you can without pressing them down unnecessarily.

Now take six hard-boiled eggs, separate the yolks from the whites, powder the yolks, and chop up the whites small.
Sprinkle a ring of yellow round the edge of the salad-bowl, say an inch in width, then put a ring of white round, and place the remainder of yolk in the middle, almost up to the centre.

Have the centre about two inches in diameter.

We now have a yellow centre surrounded by a broad white rim (as, of course, there is more white than yellow), and an outside yellow ring, which meets the white china bowl.