November Salad

Ingredients

• thin slices of crisp Spanish onion
• nests of bleached chicory leaves
• onion Jonathan apples pared and cut in one-half inch cubes
• celery hearts cut in small pieces
• fresh English walnut meats cut in quarters

Method

1. 1

   Arrange onion in nests of chicory leaves.

2. 2

   Pile on apples, celery, and walnut meats in equal quantities.

3. 3

   Moisten with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely chopped green pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

November Salad Squash Pie — Whipped Cream Coffee Sweet Cider CREAM OF ONION SOUP 6 medium-sized onions sliced. 3 tablespoons butter. 1 quart cold water. 4 tablespoons flour. 1 green pepper chopped. 1 egg yolk. 2 cups scalded milk. Parmesan cheese. Salt and cayenne. Process: Cook onion and pepper in two tablespoons butter five minutes, without browning; add water and cook until onions are soft (about forty minutes). Rub through a sieve. Melt re- maining butter, add flour and stir to a paste; add gradually scalded milk, stirring constantly. Combine mixtures, add seasonings. Heat to boiling point, remove from range, add yolk of Ggg slightly beaten. Pass Parmesan cheese and hot, crisp crackers. Two tablespoons cheese may be added to soup when adding Qgg yolk. Serve very hot. CHICKEN STEW WITH TEA BISCUIT Dress, clean and cut up a fowl. Place in stew pan, cover with boiling water. Add three slices onion, one stalk celery broken in pieces, six slices carrot, spray of parsley, one-half teaspoon pepper- corns and a small bit bay leaf. Heat to boiling point, skim, cover 158 5^ Sunday Dinners '^^'^"'^'^ Fourth Sunday and simmer slowly until meat is tender; the last hour of cooking add one tablespoon salt. Remove chicken, add one cup thin cream, strain stock and thicken with flour diluted with cold milk or water. Add one-half tablespoon finely chopped parsley. Serve with Tea Biscuit. If a richer sauce is desired, butter may be added to stock. TEA BISCUIT 2 cups flour. ^ teaspoon salt. 4 tablespoons Cottolene. 4 teaspoons baking powder. % cup milk. Process: Mix and sift flour, salt and baking powder, add Cottolene and rub it in lightly with tips of fingers. Add milk and mix to a soft dough with a knife. Toss on a floured board, pat and roll to one-half inch thickness. Shape with a small biscuit cutter, place close in buttered pan and bake 15 minutes in hot oven. NOVEMBER SALAD Arrange thin slices of crisp Spanish onion in nests of bleached chicory leaves. Pile on onion Jonathan apples pared and cut in one-half inch cubes, celery hearts cut in small pieces and fresh English walnut meats cut in quarters

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