Salads and Salad Dressing
Chapter XI-Salads and Salad Dressing
RESH green vegetables that are eaten raw and dressed with oils, acids, salt and pepper are classed as salads. Potatoes, string beans…
French Dressing
If the French dressing is made at table, a small china or glass tray, set with oil and vinegar cruets, salt cellar, peppercorn grinder…
Whipped Cream Mayonnaise Dressing
When the dressing is to be used within twenty-four hours add one-third of a cup of cream, beaten stiff, to either Mayonnaise No. 1 or No. 2.
Mayonnaise, Colored
Mayonnaise may be colored green in the following manner: Boil a double handful of spinach until tender, drain it, let it cool, and squeeze…
Sour Cream Salad Dressing
Take one cup of sour cream; one teaspoon of sugar; one tablespoon of lemon juice; one teaspoon of salt; one-eighth teaspoon of cayenne; two…
Cooked Cream Salad Dressing
Take three eggs (yolks); one tablespoon of thick, sweet cream; one tablespoon of butter; one tablespoon of lemon juice; one saltspoon of…
Lettuce Salad
Choose for this the crisp part of the lettuce, lay it in cold water for one hour, dry well, and arrange it in a salad bowl. Pour over the…
Onion and Lettuce Salad
Strip off and set aside for any other purpose desired, the green leaves of two heads of lettuce, wash the hearts and drop them into…
Cardinal Salad
Boil two large beets until tender; slice, cover with two tablespoons of vinegar and allow them to stand until the following day. Drain off…
Cheese and Romaine
potatoes until well done but not too soft; slice them while hot, and add about two dessertspoons of oil and two tablespoons of vinegar…
Spinach Salad
Place one pint of minced, cold boiled spinach on a dish. Chop separately with a silver knife (steel discolors) the whites and yolks of two…
Tomato Salad
Scald and remove the skins and set the tomatoes where they will become perfectly cold. Just before serving time divide them in halves…
Tomatoes with Celery
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 and Cucumber Salad
Peel four good-sized tomatoes, set in a cold place, and slice when needed. Peel two small cucumbers, and slice them very thin. Make a bed…
Water-Cress and Walnut Salad
Crack walnuts and remove their meats as nearly as possible in unbroken halves. Squeeze over them the juice of one lemon, and leave them for…
Celery Salad
After thoroughly freshening the celery and wiping it dry, cut it into inch lengths and then into strips, which place in a salad bowl, and…
Fish Salad
Wrap in a fresh cloth one pound of solid fish (halibut preferred), and boil it for ten minutes in salted water. The remains of almost any…
Lobster Salad
Place a live lobster in boiling water, and let it cook for twenty minutes from the time it begins to boil, keeping it covered all the time…
Crab Salad
Boil three dozen hard-shell crabs for one-half hour, and when they are cool, remove the top shell and tail of each. Divide what remains…
Frozen Tomato Salad
Take a can of tomatoes, season with salt, pepper and a tablespoon of sugar. Fill pound baking powder cans, pack in ice and salt and let…
Oyster Salad
Take one quart of oysters; one-half cup of mayonnaise; one tablespoon of oil; one-half teaspoon of salt; one pint of celery; two…
Chicken Salad
Fat fowls make the best salad. Rub the chicken with salt and pepper, place one small onion and one bay leaf inside, wrap with napkin, tie…
Alligator Pear Salad
Alligator pears are to be had at fancy fruiterers and one pear may be made to serve in three portions. Peel the pear, quarter and core it…
Tomato En Surprise
Select perfect tomatoes of uniform size. Dip for a moment in boiling water and remove the skin without destroying the smoothness of the…
Cream Cheese and Nut Balls
Mix cream cheese with chopped celery and olives, form into balls about the size of a large hickory nut. Roll each ball in chopped nut…
French Fruit Salad
Peel two oranges, and, with scissors, remove the thin skin from each section. Cut three bananas in quarter-inch slices and remove the skins…
Shrimp or Prawn Salad
Freshly cooked and shelled prawns are offered for sale in the best fish markets; but if they cannot be obtained in this way, drop them…
Sweetbread Salad
To make enough for six persons, use a pair of large sweetbreads; one-half pint of thinly-sliced celery; six heart leaves of lettuce…
Salad Eggs
Remove the shells from four cold, hard boiled eggs and cut a large piece from the top of each; take out the yolks and mix them to form a…
Cabbage Salad
Take one-half cabbage; six eggs; one teacup of sugar; one teaspoon of salt; two teaspoons of melted butter; one teaspoon of mustard…
Cold Slaw
Shred cabbage very fine, and place it in a salad dish. For every one and one-half pint of cabbage allow one-half cup of vinegar; one and…
Cress Salad
Pick over the leaves of the water-cress carefully, removing all bruised or wilted ones, and with the fingers break into two-inch lengths…
Cress and Dandelion Salad
The dandelion should be fresh and young. Wash the leaves carefully, and drain well. Arrange them in a salad bowl with an equal quantity of…
Cucumber Salad
Cut about an inch off the point of each cucumber, and pare carefully. Slice very thin, sprinkle with a little salt, and let stand ten…
Daisy Salad
Cut the whites of eight hard boiled eggs into rings and mix the yolks with one pint of good mayonnaise dressing. On a platter arrange…
Asparagus Salad
Prepare the asparagus as before, discard the lower part of the stalk, cut the remainder in inch pieces, and serve on lettuce, with either…
Orange Salad
Cut oranges in halves, free the pulp entirely from the membrane in which it is encased, remove the seeds, and lay on a bed of lettuce…
Washington Salad
Rub together one-half cup each of butter and grated cheese, one cup flour, and a little paprika and salt. Mix with ice water, roll out very…
Banana Salad
Slice bananas with a silver knife upon lettuce, and pour Sour Cream dressing over them.
Waldorf Salad
Cut in fine short strips equal quantities of apple and celery, add one-fourth the quantity of coarsely chopped English walnut meats, mix…
Tomato Jelly Salad
Cook three cups of canned tomatoes with a slice of onion; a stalk of celery; one bay leaf; four cloves; a small piece of green pepper pod…
Cream Cheese Salad
Arrange crisp lettuce leaves on a salad dish, and press cream cheese through a potato ricer upon them. The cheese must be kept on the ice…
Pineapple and Nut Salad in Tomato Baskets
Mix one cup of shredded pineapple, either fresh or canned, with one cup of coarsely cut nut meats, and stand in French dressing on the ice…
Cucumber and Grape Fruit Salad
Prepare the grape fruit as for the preceding recipe, add an equal quantity of sliced cucumbers, marinate with French dressing, and serve in…
White Grape Salad
Peel one pound of white grapes, remove the seeds by cutting the grapes almost in two, with a thin sharp knife. Arrange on lettuce leaves…