Cook and Be Cool

Twenty complete cold luncheons for hot weather — “efficiency is only another name for intelligent laziness.”

Salads and Salad Dressings

18 recipes in this part of Cook and Be Cool.

Beet and Fish Salad

To a cup of shredded tuna fish, add two chopped cooked beets and a cup of finely chopped cabbage; mix these ingredients with a quarter of a…

Molded Tomato Salad

To one can of tomato soup add two cups of boiling water, a third of a cup of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and the juice of half an…

Lemco Celery Salad

Into a pint of boiling water put one tablespoonful of lemco (beef extract). Soften two tablespoonfuls of granulated gelatin in half a cup…

Individual Vegetable and Vegex Salad

Take a round of whole wheat bread and spread it with a teaspoonful of butter, and a teaspoonful of vegex, creamed together. Chop a raw…

Egg Timbale Salad

Take as many eggs as you have people to serve. Boil them hard, remove the shell and put the eggs through a potato ricer while still warm…

Jerusalem Artichoke Salad

To a cup of cooked artichokes diced, add a cup of diced celery, mix with mayonnaise and arrange on lettuce hearts, or slices of peeled…

Yellow Tomato Salad

Peel the tomatoes, cut them in halves and marinate in French dressing on ice for an hour. Mix a cupful of diced celery, with half a cupful…

Decorated Apple Salad

Use rather large eating apples, peel, core, and cut in slices. Around the edge of the apple put a ring of grated raw carrot, inside this a…

Eggs in Aspic

Take three cups of canned bouillon, heat, and add to it two tablespoonfuls of granulated gelatin that has been softened in half a cup of…

Sardine Salad

Use a can of boneless sardines. Take them out of the can, skin and flake. Mince six stuffed olives, two stalks of celery, two pickles and…

Cheese Fruits

Little cheese fruits are very pretty to serve with the salad course or with hors d'œuvres. Take a package of cream cheese, unwrap, and put…

Sherry's French Dressing

Mix half a cup of olive oil, four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, half a small onion chopped very fine, twice as much parsley, one tablespoonful…

Mayonnaise Maigre

Mix two egg yolks, one teaspoonful of dry mustard, a teaspoonful of salt, a little cayenne, and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar in a small…

Standard French Dressing

Four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two of vinegar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a quarter of pepper. Put in a small glass jar, set on…

Standard Mayonnaise

Mix in a small bowl, half a teaspoonful of sugar, the same amount of salt, and a pinch of paprika. Now add an egg yolk and half a…

Mayonnaise Without Egg

Bake a small potato, take off the skin, mash and add a teaspoonful of salt, one of powdered sugar, one of mustard, and a tablespoonful of…

Economical Mayonnaise

Put in a small bowl, the yolk of an egg, a tablespoonful of vinegar, the same amount of lemon juice, a half cupful of olive oil, a quarter…

Honey Dressing

Put in a glass bowl two tablespoonfuls of honey, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, and three tablespoonfuls of olive oil. Season with salt to…

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