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A Book of Cooking and Pastry: A Collection of Original Receipts Gathered ...

1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Peel small solid potatoes 'hot, cut in even slices, not too thin. Add to each quart four spoonsfull of olive oil. Onions can be used if desired ; pepper and salt. Mix this, and last add one spoonfull of vinegarPotato Salad. If too dry add a little soup stock or water. Do not let stand long after mixing. [56] PLAIN SALAD DRESSING. A compound of three parts of oil, one of vinegar, pep- per and salt. Use oil, salt and pepper first, then add the vinegar to the salad, and use at once. LETTUCE. Wash and wring dry two heads of lettuce, separate the leaves and break them apart. Put them in a bowl, add oil, pepper, salt, a teasspoonfull of chopped herbs, toss up, add vinegar, toss up and serve. LETTUCE, WITH DRESSING OF BACON. Cut two ounces of sweet bacon in small dice, fry slowly, pour over the salad ; pepper, salt, and last two spoonfulls of vinegar. RED AND WHITE CABBAGE SALAD. Cut up a small hard head of each, leave them sep- arate, salt each, let stand half an hour. Press out, and prepare the dressing. Boil hard four eggs, cut them the long way in two, lay the red cabbage in the middle ot the dish, the white around it and the eggs on the edge, and when ready to use mix with dressing, on the table. ENDIVE SALAD, /^^^/iy* y Pick the salad and use mostly the white. Cut in pie- ces one and a half inches long. Add a little onionEndive Salad ai serve with plain dressing. LETTUCE AND EGGS. Boil four eggs hard, lay one head of lettuce in the bowl. Slice the eggs, chop up a few capersLettuce and Eggs, and use plain dressing. WATER CRESS SALAD. Wash and pick; add a little onionWater Cress Salad and plain dress- 1Dg ' CELERY SALAD. Four celeryac roots, boiled soft, peel and slice; add two sliced potatoes, salt, pepper, a few celery leavesCelery Salad and use 'lain dressing. [57] ASPARAGUS SALAD. Boil two bunches, after cutting off two inches of the hard endAsparagus Salad, and scrape off skin; drain and lay in the bowl; use plain dressing. CAULIFLOWER. Pick the Cauliflower in small pieces, wash and boil in salt water; drain and arrange in the bowl; use plain dressing. STRING BEANS. String and cut them; boil tender; add a. little onion; plain dressing. CUCUMBER SALAD, German. Peel and slice solid cucumbers, salt and let stand for twenty minutes; press out, use plain dressing, onions if desired. BREAKFAST SALAD. Scald three large smooth tomatoes, skin them and lay on ice, when cold slice them; cut up a gherkin in slices and one head of lettuce and use plain dressing. STALK CELERY SALAD. Cut the root off, and wipe each piece; cut in pieces an inch long; use plain mayonese. HERRING SALAD, German Style. Get four milt Holland herrings and soak in water over night, pound them with the back of a knife, and pull off the skin, beginning at the tail, take out the milt and cut up in small square pieces; slice one and one half quart of potatoes while hot; lay in a dish and moisten with a little water and vinegar; add the herring, one onion well minced; stir up the milt of the herring in a bowl, take out the stringy part and mix in six spoonfuls of oil; stir until smooth, add pepper and mix with the salad, using last four spoonfuls of vinegarHerring Salad, German Style; if the oil is objected to a dressing can be used of hard boiled eggs. (See receipt). / [58] IT ALIEN SALAD. This salad can be made out of beans, cauliflower, as- paragus, celery, potatoes and red beets; cut up after they are cooked in square pieces, each of the vegetables being kept seperate, also green gherkins, silver onion, capers, chicken, lobsters, shrimps cut, and a plain dressing used; in laying the salads in the bowl aim to have a variety of colors; lay them in rings in the dish and a hard boiled egg in the middle; decorate with parsley, and mix when ready to serve. CHICKEN SALAD. Chicken Salad