Cream Cheese Salad

Ingredients

• Take a cream cheese
• adding gradually just enough thick, sweet cream
• arranging each in a nest of blanched lettuce leaves

Method

1. 1

   A good salad is made with cream cheese by molding into small rolls, arranging each in a nest of blanched lettuce leaves and serving with French dressing or a mayonnaise.

2. 2

   A variation of this is made by molding the cheese into balls and pressing the half of an English walnut meat on one side.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Table Talk's illustrated cook book (1906) by Table Talk Publishing Co., page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Take a cream cheese and work smooth with a fork, adding gradually just enough thick, sweet cream to make a stiff paste. Divide into three or more portions. Color one portion green with parsley and chives pounded to a paste ; another red, with pounded sweet red pepper or spiced beets chopped fine; a third yellow, with crushed yolk of a hard boiled ^gg] a fourth brown, with pounded pecan nuts. Mold in tiny balls and put one or more of each color in nests made with lettuce leaves. CHEESE AND CELERY SALAD. Cheese and celery salad will assume a very decorative effect if the house- keeper owns one of the little cone shaped molds with revolving knife or cutter used for dipping ice cream from the freezer. Rub the inside lightly with olive oil ; mix cream cheese to a paste with a little cream. Line the mold with this, fill the center with celery cut fine and mixed with mayonnaise ; carefully turn out on a lettuce leaf. SALADS 7Q A DAINTY, INBXPENSIVE COMPANY SALAD IS MADE BY CUTTING COLO, BOILED POTATOES WITH A FRENCH scoop; marinate with oil, vinegar, salt and pepper for an hour; then heap into cups made of BOSTON lettuce; sprinkle with chopped parsley, and serve with mayonnaise. BAKED BEAN SALAD. served with a FRENCH DRESSING; GARNISHED WITH 80U« CUCUMBER PICKLES AND PIMOLAS. 8o TABLE TALK'S ILLUSTRATED COOK BOOK ST. GERMAIN E SALAD. BROILED SIRLOIN STEAK; MARINATE OVER NIGHT WITH OLIVE OIL, VINEGAR. PAPRICA AND SALT. SERVING, GARNISH WITH LATTICED CUCUMBERS AND BOSTON LETTUCE HEARTS. CREAM CHEESE SALAD. — BBCIPB ON OPPOBITB TkOm. SALADS 8i CREAM CHEESE SALAD. A good salad is made with cream cheese by molding into small rolls (using butter hands or pats), arranging each in a nest of blanched lettuce leaves

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