Salads and Salad Dressings
Cardinal Salad
Boil beets until tender, slice, cover with vinegar and let stand until the following day. Drain off the vinegar and use it in making the…
Cabbage Salad
Cut the cabbage in several parts, and wash it well. Remove wilted or tough leaves, cut out the core and chop very fine with a sharp knife…
Cole-Slaw
Heat vinegar and seasonings (including the sugar and butter) to boiling, beat eggs and add hot vinegar mixture to them very slowly. Cook in…
Carrot Salad
1 cup chopped raw cabbage or ½ teaspoon salt celery, or cabbage and celery
Cucumber Jelly Salad
Peel cucumbers, removing most of the white as well as the green skin. Grate enough to give one pint and season with salt, paprika, vinegar…
Lettuce Salad
Choose for this the crisp center of the lettuce. Wash it, dry it well, pull to pieces or cut it into four or six sections, and arrange it…
Potato Salad
Boil potatoes until done, but not too soft, slice them when cooked and add oil and vinegar. Chop onion and celery very fine, and add, with…
Tomato and Celery Salad
Select firm tomatoes of a good size, cut a slice from the top of each, and scoop out all the seeds and soft pulp, being careful not to…
Tomato Surprise Salad
Garnish of truffles or walnut- ¼ cup chopped nuts meats Select medium-sized, smooth tomatoes. Scald and remove the skins. Chill. Carefully…
Frozen Fruit Salad
1 teaspoon instantaneous gela- 11/2 cups fruit cut fine (cherries, tin peaches, pineapple, etc.) Soak the gelatin in the cold water, melt…
Tomato Jelly Salad
Cook tomatoes with seasonings. Soak gelatin in cold water, add to boiling tomatoes, strain and pour into cups about the size of a tomato…
Alligator-Pear Salad
½ to ¾ cup mayonnaise or Alligator pears, or avocadoes, are to be had at fancy fruiterers. Cut each pear into six pieces, giving…
Banana and Nut Salad
Peel bananas and cut in two lengthwise. Roll in nut-meats. Place on lettuce leaf and garnish with dressing. Equal parts of dressing and…
Coconut Fruit Salad
1½ cups mixed diced tart ap- 4 tablespoons orange-juice ples and celery Mix the apples, celery, and coconut. Sprinkle with the lemonjuice…
Combination Fruit Salad
6 halves of stewed pears, fresh 36 white cherries or canned Place the half pears on crisp lettuce leaves. Stone the cherries and arrange…
French Fruit Salad
Peel the oranges and cut away the sections from the membrane by placing a knife parallel with the membrane and slicing down. If the fruit…
Grapefruit and Grape Salad
Peel fine large grapefruit and separate the sections, removing every particle of the bitter white inner skin. Peel and seed the grapes and…
Pear Salad
6 stalks celery and stoned olives, chopped Select well-formed pears and cut off a bit of the broad end so that the pear will stand steadily…
Cream-Cheese Salad
Work enough grape-juice into the cream cheese to soften it so that it can be made into balls with the hands or with butter paddles. Add the…
Tropical Salad
With a vegetable cutter, cut small balls from a cantaloup that is fairly firm in texture. Arrange several balls on a slice of tomato which…
Salad Eggs
Remove the shells from the cold, hard-cooked eggs and cut a large piece from the top of each, take out the yolks and mix them to form a…
Chicken Salad
1 cup diced celery cut into dice, capers, egg- Mayonnaise yolks, etc. Left-over chicken makes a very good salad. To prepare a chicken…
Fish Salad
1 pound haddock or other fish I cup chopped celery Wrap the haddock in a clean cloth and boil it for ten minutes in salted water. The…
Lobster Salad
Remove the meat from fresh boiled lobster chilled. Reserve the creamy or green fat, together with the coral. If there are eggs on the tail…
Sardine Salad
Remove the skin and bones from sardines and mix with chopped hard-cooked eggs. Cut cucumber in thin slices and arrange on lettuce leaves…
Shrimp Salad
1 pint cooked shrimps or Lettuce, shredded celery, or prawns, fresh or canned shaved cabbage Marinate the shrimps and serve whole on…
Miscellaneous Combinations for Salads
9. Prunes stuffed with cotcoconut tage-cheese 11. Beet and cabbage salad with pimiento, green pep- 12. Beet and egg salad per and…
French Dressing
¾ to I tablespoon vinegar or I teaspoon salt lemon-juice These ingredients make a simple French dressing. Many saladlovers add one or more…
Variations for French Dressing
Many variations may be made by the addition of other ingredients to the French dressing. Grated cheese may be added, also bits of parsley…
Mayonnaise Dressing
All materials should be thoroughly chilled before being used in the making of mayonnaise. 3 tablespoons vinegar or lemon- ¼ teaspoon pepper…
Dressing
Mayonnaise dressing takes on a new flavor if chopped pickles, olives, mangoes, pimiento or celery are added. Mayonnaise may be extended by…
Colored Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise may be colored green in the following manner: Boil two cups of spinach until tender, drain it, let it cool and squeeze dry. Mash…
Thousand Island Salad Dressing
Add chilli sauce, chives, catchup, peppers, paprika and vinegar to mayonnaise.
Boiled Dressing
Heat the vinegar. Sift the dry ingredients thoroughly, add to the slightly beaten egg-yolk, and beat together well. Pour the boiling…
Sour-Cream Salad Dressing
This makes an excellent dressing for vegetable salads. Place the salt, sugar, and pepper together in a bowl, mix well and add the…
Dressing for Meat Salads
Tartar sauce and Hollandaise sauce can be used with meat salads very nicely, if desired.