Salad Making
Thy hygienic value of salads, can scarcely be over-estimated, while their decorative possibilities are almost illimitable. A salad should always be appetizing in a high degree; also refreshing. Attractiveness should be added to these two essentials, so that the useful and ornamental may be combined in its preparation. A salad can be made so beautiful as to lend charm to its surrounding, and so delicious that when daintily served, it will go far, of itself, to redeem from utter failure, a very ordinary dinner.
There are many incongruous mixtures compounded of variety of things stirred together, that are served as salads. They can make them, but no one of cultured taste will care to do so. A dinner salad should rarely, if ever, be heavy. It should be of fresh fruits or vegetables simply dressed and delicately served and appetizing in a high degree, And the hearsay and more complex salads should be served alone or at a less hearty meal.