Tomatoes
1. Serve them oftenest plain sliced in shallow bowls on the table either for breakfast or dinner, with only broken ice laid on them. 2. Make a tomato salad by mixing in a small proportion of sliced cucumbers and onions and pouring over them vinegar, pepper and salt. Garnish with leaves of heart lettuce. 3. Slice tomatoes in individual deep dishes and pour a salad dressing over. 4. Tomatoes are liked by many people with a dressing of sugar and vinegar, like the lettuce sweet salad.
For there is a natural craving for something herbaceous, green, and sour, and if debarred from regular salads, from vinegar and sugar, people seek such substitutes as nature furnishes. "Bread itself was a delicacy seldom thought of, because hard to be obtained, and milk, butter and poultry were out of the question in this Scythian camp. * * * *--the meal which she had so sedulously arranged, and to which she now added a few bunches of cranberries, gathered in an adjacent morass." --Waverley. "While Joe was gone back in the canoe for the frying-pan, which had been left, we picked a couple of quarts of tree-cranberries for sauce. This sauce was very grateful to us who had been confined to hard bread, pork and moose-meat. --The Maine Woods. "I may mention that rhubarb was cut in thin slices and eaten with salt, quite raw. Melon seeds, salted, were also very plentiful." --Travels in Persia. "American college girls are much addicted to eating unripe apples with salt." --Medical Journal.
But now we have enough of salads. This is what too much salad brings a man to: "At last they found--his foragers for charms-- A little glassy-headed, hairless man, Who lived alone in a great wild on grass; Read but one book, and ever reading, grew So grated down and filed away with thought, So lean his eyes were monstrous; while the skin Clung but to crate and basket, ribs and spine. * * * * that old man Went back to his old wild and lived on grass, And vanished, and his book came down to me." --Merlin and Vivien.