Bird's Nest Salad

Ingredients

• cooked spinach
• salt
• pepper
• oil
• lemon juice
• eggs of Neufchatel cheese
• paprika

Method

1. 1

   Fashion nests with chopped spinach seasoned with salt, pepper, oil, and lemon juice.

2. 2

   When cold, arrange Neufchatel cheese shaped like eggs in the nests.

3. 3

   Fill in between with dressed lettuce or blanched celery tips.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 304. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BIRD'S NEST SALAD.— Fashion small nests with cooked spinach, chopped, and seasoned with salt, pepper, oil and lemonj juice. When cold arrange in the nest eggs of Neufchatel cheese, flecked with paprika. Shape the eggs with smooth sides of butter paddles. Fill in between the nests with dressed lettuce or blanched celery' tips. Serve with brown bread and butter sandwiches. In serving the nests, use a broad-bladed silver knife. — Mrs. D. C. Daniels, Arlington Heights, 111. BOHEMIAN SALAD.— Cover the bottom of a salad dish with crisp lettuce leaves, on these put alternate layers of boiled beets and hard boiled eggs, sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of chopped onion, , and serve with preferred dressing. This is a nice salad to serve with braised beef or mutton. — Mrs. W. H. Willis, Glencoe, 111. BOLIVIA SALAD.— Add to 114 cups cold boiled potatoes, cut in y^ inch cubes, 3 hard-^boiled eggs, finely chopped, Ij/^ tea- spoons finely chopped red peppers, Ij^ tablespoons chopped chives. Pour over cream dressing, and serve in nests of lettuce leaves. — Mrs. W. H. Willis, Glencoe, 111. • BRAZILIAN SALAD. — Remove skin and seeds from white grapes and cut in halves, lengthwise. Add an equal quantity of shredded fresh pineapple; apples, pared, cored and cut in sniall pieces; then add one-fourth the quantity of Brazil nuts, broken in pieces. Mix thoroughly, and season with lemon juice

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