Foolproof food

Recipe for traditional salad with watercress and Shanagarry Cream Dressing.

This simple, old fashioned salad can be quite delicious when it’s made with a crisp lettuce, good home-grown tomatoes and cucumbers, free-range eggs and home preserved beetroot.

If, on the other hand, you make it with pale battery eggs, watery tomatoes, tired lettuce and cucumber - and worst of all-vinegary beetroot from a jar, you’ll wonder why you bothered.