This section is from the book "The Old And New Cook Book", by Martha Pritchard Stanford. Also available from Amazon: The old and new cook book.
Scrape asparagus and boil in salt water until tender. When cold serve with french dressing.
1 pt. cooked beans.
1 head boiled cauliflower.
Mix the above and serve either with french dressing or mayonnaise.
2 prs. sweet breads.
3 prs. veal brains. 1 head lettuce. 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1 cup mayonnaise.
1 lemon.
1 teaspoon salt.
Soak sweet breads and brains in clear water, then boil with salt, and lemon juice, when cooked put into ice water for about 10 minutes, then trim and slice, mix with mayonnaise and serve on lettuce leaves.
1 large chicken.
2 cups chopped celery. 1 cup mayonnaise.
3 doz. stoned olives.
3 hard boiled eggs.
1 head lettuce.
1 teaspoon salt.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
Boil chicken with salt and pepper until tender, then cut in pieces 1 inch square, mix with celery and slice olives and pour mayonnaise over it. Garnish with lettuce leaves and slice eggs.
1 head cabbage.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1 teaspoon salt and celery seed
1 cup vinegar.
2 lightly beaten eggs.
1 tablespoon sugar. 1/2 cup milk. 1 teaspoon flour. 1 teaspoon butter. 1/4 teaspoon mustard.
Shred cabbage, salt and pepper, pour 1/2 cup vinegar over it. Let it stand 2 hours before putting on the dressing, which can be used hot or cold. Make a dressing by putting butter in a sauce pan, when hot put in mustard, vinegar, celery seeds, eggs, milk and flour, cook 5 minutes, stir constantly so that it will not curdle. A teaspoon mustard seed is a good addition.
1 doz. boiled and picked crabs. 1 cup mayonnaise. 12 large tomatoes. 1 head lettuce.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper. 2 hard boiled eggs.
Mix crabs with mayonnaise and seasonings. Cut out the center of tomatoes and fill with crabs and put a slice of egg on each.
Serve on lettuce leaves.
1 doz. hard boiled eggs. 1 teaspoon Worcestershire 10 drops tobasco sauce. 1 pinch mustard.
4 tablespoons olive oil. 4 tablespoons vinegar. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 head lettuce.
Slice eggs, mix with lettuce and pour the following dressing over it. Make a dressing by mixing together, vinegar, oil, mustard, tobasco, salt and Wrocestershire.
2 lbs. cold boiled fish. 8 cold boiled potatoes. 6 bard boiled eggs. 6 drops tobasco.
1 cup mayonnaise. 1 head lettuce.
1 teaspoon salt and red pepper.
2 teaspoons capers.
Mix fish with potatoes, eggs, tobasco, salt and pepper, then stir in mayonnaise and capers. Serve with letuce.
4 oranges or 2 grape fruit.
4 apples.
1 cup chopped celery.
1 head lettuce.. 1 cup mayonnaise.
Cut fruit up with celery and serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise.
 
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