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Chicken Salad

Boil 3 or 4 fowls in the stock boiler and when done tender set them away to get cold. 1. Cut all the meat of the fowls into strips, and then across, making dice shapes, and as small as time will allow, but don't chop it. Cut 6 or 8 heads of celery the same way.

Prepare either the mayonaise or the salad dressing made with cooked yolks. Mix with both the chicken and the celery, but seperately, a little eil, vinegar, pepper and salt--just enough to moisten and make them look juicy--then press the chicken into an oval mould such as a melon mould or common jelly mould or a deep dish. The oil, etc., will cause it to preserve a good shape. Turn it out on to a flat meat dish. Spread the thick mayonaise all over and smooth it with a knife, and place the seasoned celery around with a spoon. Decorate the salad with whatever may be convenient, not always alike. A rose cut out of a beet, or a row of them, with parsley or other green, natural flowers, capers, sliced hard-boiled eggs and so forth, or chopped red cabbage sparingly sprinkled over, or cut lemons.

Individual dishes just the same as above, but shaped in individual moulds, or in egg cups can have a cherry scooped out of a cooked beet on top, or a green pickle--ways that are short and speedy, and olives either plain or stoned and stuffed come in good place. 2. It is not essential to have a salad dressing for the above, but does well enough to add more oil and vinegar to the chicken and mince the celery fine. Celery so minced and mixed with oil and vinegar has a buttery appearance and will keep shape when moulded, as it may be to form a border. Garnish with sliced or quartered eggs beside. 3. Cut the chicken small. Prepare one-third as much celery and a similar quantity of green lettuce. Mix all and pour over a thin mayonaise or other dressing in a bowl. Combine thoroughly, and dish up spoonfuls piled a little in flat dishes.

Border of small lettuce leaves, shred lettuce or minced yolks of eggs. This should not be pasty, as thick dressing would make it. Veal salad may be made like chicken. It is best to call it veal salad and make it as good as chicken if possible.