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Kirmess cook book

1907

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Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
get perfectly cold, before serving; toss up the salad with the salad fork and spoon, mixing thoroughly, and serve. WALDORF POTATO SALAD. Table Talk. Scrub small German or Holland potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and cool, then peel and cut in thin slices, then in quarters. There should be a good pint. Pare and dice one firm cucumber, cut two button onions in paper thin slices and a half cupful of shelled pecan nuts in strips. Mix one-half cupful of stiff may- onnaise with three or four tablespoonfuls of whipped creamWaldorf Potato Salad, and lightly stir it through the mixed ingre-^ dients. Fill lettuce cups with the mixture and garnish each plate with halved pimolas and a spoonful of may- onnaise. COLD MEAT AND POTATO SALAD. Mrs. Seely's Cook Book. Cut one pound of cold meat into inch squares and mix with one pint of chopped, cold boiled potatoes. Put a layer in the bottom of a salad bowl, sprinkle with a little parsley, celery, and onion, chopped very fine, and moisten with a salad dressing of oil, vinegar, salt, and white pepperCold Meat and Potato Salad. Then spread another layer of meat and potato, and so on till all is used. This dish should stand for two or three hours before serving. CUCUMBER SALAD. Mrs. Elmer S. Forbes. Slice three cucumbers very thin, chop fine two hard- boiled eggs, a few radishes, two green peppers, and two cold boiled beets. Stir all together lightly and 212 KIRMESS COOK BOOK. muc with French dressingCucumber Salad. Serve with lettuce, and garnish with slices of egg, beet and pepper. CUCUMBEB JELLY SALAD. M. S. R. Fare and cut fine three large cucumbers. Fut in an agate saucepan with one small onion cut fine, one teaspoonf ul of peppercorns, two tablespoonfuls of vine- gar and a pint and a half of cold water. Heat and stew slowly until very tender. Add one-half of a pack- age of Cox's gelatine, soaked in one-half of a cup- ful of cold water, and stir until dissolved. Strain through wetted cheese-cloth. Add enough leaf green color pasteCucumber Jelly Salad to color a pale green and set aside to chill. When beginning to thicken, line small wetted moulds with thin slices of fresh cucumber, pour in the thicken- ing jelly, and place on ice until firm. Serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise or a French dressing. WALDORP NUT SALAD. Mrs. W. P. Watson. Blanched almonds (two dozen nuts or more), three medium-sized apples, heart of celery stalk, one table- spoonful of chopped peanuts. Dressing: One-half cup of butter, yolks of three or four eggs, well beaten, one- half gill of vinegar, and made mustardWaldorf Nut Salad. NORWEGIAN SALAD. Table Talk. Take one-half of a cupful each of the following in- gredients: Cold cooked chicken, boiled tongue, smoked herring, boiled potatoes and boiled string-beans — ^the beans cut fine, other articles diced; add one-quarter of SALADS. 213 a cupful of diced boiled carrots. Mix all thoroughly^ add a liberal quantity of French dressing and keep turning through carefully for ten or fifteen minutes. Serve on lettuce or watercress and pass mayonnaise with it. PEPPER AND ONION SALAD. Tested. Two very young, green chilli peppers, six young onions, double the quantity of crisp celery, all shred- ded and mixed with the centers scooped out of six small tomatoes, adding a little mayonnaise and salt to tastePepper and Onion Salad, makes a filling for the tomatoes which proves a perfect accompaniment to a breaded veal chop. PEANUT SALAD. Tested. Peanut Salad