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Salad, Swedish

Take a pickled herring, remove the skin and bones, cut the flesh into dice, and mix with it its bulk in cold cooked beef, boiled potatoes, and sour juicy apples, all cut up small. Add four anchovies, previously soaked in milk or water for a short time, freed from skin and bone, and torn into flakes, a table-spoonful of well-drained capers, a table-spoonful of pickled gherkins chopped small, a table-spoonful of chopped tarragon-leaves, two table-spoonfuls of chopped chervil, and twenty stoned olives. Mix these ingredients lightly, add some salad dressing of oil, vinegar, pepper, and salt, and season the preparation rather highly. If liked, the anchovies may be omitted and a dozen or more of freshly-opened oysters may be laid upon the mixture.