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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.
One pint salad oil, yolks of two eggs^ one teaspoon mustard^ one teaspoon salt^ vinegar enough to make as thin as heavy cream. Beat the yolks of eggs with mus- tard, add the oil slowly, beating hard, then add salt^ vinegar, and teaspoon powdered sugarMayonnaise Dressing. CHICKEN SALAD. Bemove the meat from a chicken that has been boiled in salted water, and cut into pieces about one inch square. Wash and scrape some nice celery. Soak in cold water to make it crisp. Dry thoroughly and cut in pieces about the same size as the chicken. Have about three-quarters as much celery as you have chicken. Mix both together and make very moist and rich with a mayonnaise dressing. Arrange on dish, shape nicely, and cover with more dressing. Garnish and trim with white celery leaves, hard-boiled egg, and a few capers sprinkled over the top. SALADS. 221 CHICKEN SALAD JELLY. Mrs. Elmer 8. Forbes. One can of chicken consomme, or one quart of clear chicken stock, one box of gelatine, breast of a boiled fowlChicken Salad Jelly, cut in very small cubes. Make a jelly of the con- somme and gelatine, seasoning to taste, and when it be- gins to stiffen pour into individual moulds. TUBKEY-AND-CHESTNUT SALAD. Janet McKenzie Hill, Boston. Prepare the chestnuts as previously directed, using twice as much turkey meatTurkey-and-Chestnut Salad, light or dark, cut into small cubes. Serve with lettuce and French, boiled or mayonnaise dressing, as desired. Marinate and drain the meat before adding the nuts. DUCK-AND-OLIVE SALAD. Janet McKenzie Hill, Boston. Cut the meat from a duck in small pieces, and slice pimolas very thin; use two tablespoonfuls of pimolasDuck-and-Olive Salad to a cup of meat. Serve on a bed of cress with a French dressing. DUOK-AND-OBANGE SALAD. Janet McKenzie Hill, Boston. Slice the oranges lengthwise; use twice as much duckDuck-and-Orange Salad as fruit Dress with oil, salt, and paprika, and serve on lettuce leaves. HAM SALAD. Soak half a tablespoonful of Cox's gelatine in one tablespoonful and a half of cold water, and dissolve in tfaree-fourths of a cup of hot chicken liquor. Strain o¥er one cup of chopped hamHam Salad and stir until the mixture begins to thicken, th^n fold in one cup of 222 KIRMESS COOK BOOK. thick cream^ beaten stiff; add, also, a few grains of paprika and salt, if needed. Mould in a ring mould, and when set and cold, turn from the.mould ; fill in the center with lettuce arranged like a cup, and fill the cup with mayonnaise. Or, serve with French dressing. TURQUOISE SALAD.* Mix together equal parts of celery and tart apple, cut ill match-like pieces, and one or two pimentosTurquoise Salad, cut in similar pieces. Dress with mayonnaise, made light with whipped cream. Serve in nests of lettuce. TURQUOISE SALAD.* Use pineapple in the place of the apple; serve in a mound on a bed of lettuce leaves. Garnish with stars cut from the pimentosTurquoise Salad with French cutter, curled cel- ery, and heart leaves of celery. SALAD CHIFFONADE.* Seed two green peppers, boil two or three minutes, then cut in shreds. Shred the light and dark leaves of a head of lettuce, or endive, separately. Cut three to- matoes in shreds. Remove the peel and skin from one large grapefruit. Serve with French dressingSalad Chiffonade, season- ing, and then arranging each article separately upon the serving-dish, having a circle of light and then dark green material about the edge. GREEN-PEA SALAD.* Green-Pea Salad