Salads of Meat, Fish, Vegetables and Fruit
Fruit Salad
Blanch the meat of two dozen English walnuts and break in pieces. Skin and seed two dozen white grapes, cut one pineapple in slices and…
Halibut Salad
Chop very fine one pound of cooked halibut, season with a few drops of onion juice, two teaspoons of lemon juice, one-half teaspoon of…
No-name Salad
Make a mayonnaise, a small amount of aspic and a French dressing. Flake any cold cooked fish, either of one kind or mixed, and lay for an…
Salmon Salad
Place on a bed of lettuce leaves, in a flat salad bowl, the contents of half a can of salmon, freed from oil and bones, and flaked. Pour…
Garcia Salad
Cut celery, apples and fresh tomatoes in thin strips about two inches long, serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing. A slice of…
Bavarian Salad
Shred very fine two heads of lettuce, chop two onions fine and cut one cold beet into cubes. Make a layer of the lettuce, toss together the…
Potato Pepper Salad
Cut three large cold potatoes into halfinch dice. Remove the seeds from a green pepper and chop it fine. Mix four tablespoons of vinegar…
Grand Union Cabbage
Select a small, heavy cabbage and roll back the outside leaves. Cut out the center, leaving the shell entire. With a sharp knife slice the…
Grape Fruit Salad
Peel the fruit, separate the sections, remove the skin and take out the seeds. Blanch Malaga grapes by throwing into hot water for a…
English Walnut and Chicken Salad
For this salad there will be required twenty-four English walnuts, onion, parsley, chicken liquor, celery, cold cooked chicken, French…
White Grape Salad
One pound of white grapes, one head of lettuce, one pint of chopped celery, mayonnaise dressing. Cut grapes in two, taking out seeds, or…
Cabbage Salad
Chop cabbage to make three pints, add two tablespoons of sugar and one tablespoon of salt. Boil one cup of vinegar, add a heaping…
Waldorf Salaa
Two cups of celery chopped fine, grated cind of one orange, one cup of apples cut in dice. If fine red apples take six and scoop out…
French Dressing
One and one-half teaspoons of salt, one-quarter teaspoon of pepper, six tablespoons of olive oil, two tablespoons of vinegar, cayenne…
Mayonnaise Dressing
a One egg yolk, one cup of olive oil, one and one-half teaspoons of salt, one-quarter teaspoon of cayenne, one and one-half teaspoons of…
Boiled Salad Dressing
One and one-half teaspoons of mustard, one and one-half teaspoons of salt, two teaspoons of flour, one-half teaspoon of paprika, one-eighth…
Simple Salad Dressing
Two teaspoons of mustard, one and one-half teaspoons of salt, one-eighth teaspoon of cayenne, four eggs, one-half cup of vinegar…
Fruit Salad (for twelve)
Six mellow sour apples, cut into dice. Six oranges, pulp separated from inner skin, half a pound of blanched almonds cut fine with knite…
Egg and Lobster Salad
Cook one dozen eggs, remove shells, cut a small piece from the top and a slice from the bottom of each, the latter to make them stand…
Spanish Salad
One cup of chicken meat cut in small pieces, cucumber cut in cubes, one cup of English walnut meats broken in pieces, one-half can of…
Tomato and Mushroom Salad
Scoop out six tomatoes, leaving a shell, mix the pulp with an equal quantity of chopped olives and chopped mushrooms, allow two tablespoons…
Blood Orange Salad
Take the pulp from eight blood oranges, add one cup of Wiesbaden strawberries, the pulp of one grape fruit, one banana delicately sliced…
Neufchatel Salad
Mash two rolls of Neufchatel cheese, add two tablespoons of finely chopped olives, moisten with cream, season with salt and cayenne, form…
Orange Salad
Select Jamaica or Messina oranges of uniform size and small, cut in thin slices and slices in quarters. Marinate with one-third cup of…
Orange and Banana Salad
Cut four large oranges in halves and scoop out the pulp, add to this four bananas cut in dice, pour over it the fruit syrup.
Pineapple and Banana Salad
Use home-canned pineapple which has been cooked in the jars, or the market variety of pineapple which comes very slightly sweetened in…
Apple and Orange Salad
Fine juicy apples with a slightly acid flavor, cut in dice and mingled with orange pulp, make a delicious salad. Add half a cup of…
Cauliflower Salad
Stand a firm white cauliflower in salt water for half an hour, then cook it in boiling water until tender but not quite done. Drain, cool…
Summer Salad
Select six fresh cucumbers all the same size. Pare, cut in halves lengthwise, scoop out the centers and lay in water till wanted. Dry and…
Cherry Salad
Stone half a pound of cherries and save all the juice. Take the whitest leaves of a nice head of lettuce and wash them thoroughly. Slice a…
Spinach Salad
Pick over, wash and cook one-half peck of spinach. Drain and chop fine. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice and add one tablespoon of…
Strawberry Salad
Arrange large ripe strawberries in a glass salad bowl, dust with powdered sugar and a little nutmeg. Pour over a dressing made of two…
Macedoine Salad
Cut into neat cubes one cold beet, one cold carrot, two cold potatoes and one cup of cold string beans. Put each vegetable separately into…
Tomato and Hickory Nut Salad
Dissolve a box of acidulated gelatine in cold water enough to cover it, using the pink powder inclosed in the gelatine. Rub the tomatoes…
Japanese Salad
Wash even-sized beets and cook them in boiling salted water until tender-an hour or longer. Plunge them into cold water and rub off the…
Sweetbread Salad
Soak one pair of sweetbreads in cold water for twenty minutes, then cook in boiling salted water twelve minutes. Cool and cut in slices…
Tomato Jelly
Cook two cups of tomatoes with one slice of onion, one teaspoon of salt and one-eighth teaspoon of pepper twenty minutes, strain; add two…
Potato Salad
Cut cold boiled potatoes into even dice (about six potatoes). Mix with these the chopped whites of three hard-boiled eggs. Mix the yolks…
Celery Salad
Cut the tender stalks of celery into inch pieces to make three cups, marinate with a French dressing. Serve in a ring of tomato jelly, and…