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Proverbial Salad

The Spanish have a proverb that four persons are necessary to make a good salad: A spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a barrister for salt, and a madman to stir it up. Vegetables for a salad must be fresh and crisp. Those kept fresh by soaking in water are always ruined. If they must be kept, lay them between folds of damp cloth. They should be young and well blanched. After washing, dry in a cloth before putting them in the salad bowl. They should be eaten soon after being prepared. Lettuce, cabbage, endive, celery, water-cress and cucumber are the principal vegetable ingredients for salads; beet-root, hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes are used for the garnishing. Mayonnaise sauce is necessary for all elaborate salads of meat or cooked vegetables. It is also a good foundation for all cold sauces.