Tomato Salad

Select tomatoes of even size, remove the skins in boiling water. Cut off the stem end and scoop out the soft pulp. Sprinkle them inside with salt. Invert them on a plate to drain one hour in the refrigerator. To one cup of cold cooked chicken or veal add one-half cup of shaved celery, one spoon of minced parsley, and moisten with salad dressing. Fill the tomato shells and chill on ice. Serve on lettuce leaves.

The following recipes are taken from a book entitled "Uncooked Foods," with the consent of the author, Eugene Christian, a food expert of No. 7 East 41st St., New York, N. Y.

Hygeia Salad Dressing

Two eggs, one-half lemon, two tablespoonfuls olive oil, one cup whipped cream, sugar and salt. To the yolks of the eggs, beaten very stiff, add the oil and juice of the lemon very slowly, beating hard all the while, until it has all been added and is quite thick. Then add the beaten whites of eggs, salt and sugar to taste, and last, one cup of whipped cream. Whip all together until very stiff and set on ice until ready to serve.

Grape Fruit Salad

Lettuce, salad dressing, and grape fruit. Remove the seeds or center of grape fruit with a sharp knife. Cut the edible portion into small bits and serve on lettuce leaf with salad dressing. This makes a very dainty salad.

Whipped Cream For Salad Dressing

Place in a soup bowl one cup of very thick cream. Whip with Dover egg beater until very stiff. Add to this two teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar. Beat thoroughly again. This makes a very delicious dressing for all sweet fruit salads. If very heavy cream cannot be procured, add to it the stiffly beaten white of an egg.

Banana Salad

Oranges, white grapes, pecans, bananas. Prepare a mixture of thinly sliced bananas, shredded orange or grape fruit, seeded white grapes, and a few pecan meats in small pieces. In their season cherries may be added. Mix in a salad bowl with whipped cream. Serve on lettuce leaves.

Tomato And Cucumber Salad

Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, dressing. Slice tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions. Serve on lettuce leaf with dressing.

Strawberries And Whipped Cream

Select nice, ripe, sweet berries; wash thoroughly, then cap and put first a layer of berries, then powdered sugar, until the dish is filled. Cover with whipped cream beaten together with the whites of two eggs and a spoonful of powdered sugar.

A Simple Dessert

Eggs, sugar, cream, peaches, dates. Beat the whites of six eggs into a very stiff froth, then add gradually six tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, beating at least fifteen minutes. Then beat in one heaping tablespoonful of fresh peaches (mashed) and as many seedless raisins or dates cut fine. Serve with thick cream.

Currants

Select large bunches of ripe currants, dip in frothed white of egg. Roll in powdered sugar and serve on the stem. This makes a beautiful table decoration.

Stuffed Tomatoes

Tomatoes, parsley, onions, cucumbers, green peppers, lettuce, cabbage, flaked wheat. Remove the center from tomatoes, chop fine with a few sprigs of parsley, one small onion, one cucumber, a little green pepper, cabbage or celery, and add enough flaked wheat to thicken or make stiff, and stuff the tomato shells. Serve on a lettuce leaf with salad dressing.

Orange And Apple Salad

One apple, lettuce, salad dressing, two oranges, ground nuts. Cut in small pieces the orange and apple. Serve on a lettuce leaf with a dash of ground nuts and oil or salad dressing.

Pineapple Salad

Pineapple, lettuce, strawberries. Cut pineapple in small pieces. Wash tender leaves of lettuce and spread pineapple on them, with very ripe strawberries over the pineapple. Serve with salad dressing.

Cheese Eggs

Cream cheese, milk or cream, blanched almonds, lettuce, olives, radishes. Moisten slightly cream cheese with milk or cream. Mould cheese around blanched almond the size of a robin's egg. Arrange in nest of lettuce leaves and garnish with ripe olives and tuliped radishes.

Cress And Cabbage Salad

Cabbage, water cress, radishes, Hygeia dressing. Line salad bowl with finely sliced cabbage. Cover this with water cress, and so on, until bowl is filled. Decorate with tuliped radishes, and cover with dressing.

Nasturtium Salad

Shred a head of lettuce, mingle with it a quantity of nasturtium leaves. Wash both thoroughly, place in a salad bowl and dot with nasturtium flowers. Serve with dressing.

Vegetable Salad

One small carrot, a small piece of green pepper, one white turnip, a little celery, a little cabbage, a few radishes, one small onion, lettuce, salad dressing. Grind or chop fine all vegetables. Serve on lettuce leaf with salad dressing.