15 Recipes For Making Salads. Continued

Oyster Salad In Ice Bowl Recipe

Freeze three fourths inch of water in a large charlotte russe mould. Weight a smaller mould and set upon the centre of the ice. Fill the outer mould with water and let freeze. Fill the small mould with warm water and lift it out. Line the open space (the ice bowl) with lettuce. Fill with layers of "plumped," or scalded and chilled, oysters, marinated with French dressing and dressed celery or cabbage. In serving the salad, do not disturb the lettuce lining. Serve mayonnaise in a bowl apart, or use this for dressing the oysters before putting them in place.

Shad Roe And Cucumber Salad Recipe

Gently simmer a shad roe with onion and bay leaf in salted acidulated water twenty minutes; cool, cut in slices and cubes and marinate with French dressing made with onion juice; to the cubes of roe add a cucumber, cut in cubes, and mayonnaise to moisten.

Celery, Apple And Green Pepper Salad Recipe

Dispose the salad upon a bed of heart leaves of lettuce. Garnish the long sides with sliced cucumber and the top with sliced roe and chillies.

Orange And English Walnut Salad Recipe

Slice four peeled oranges lengthwise, dress with three or four tablespoonfuls of olive oil and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Arrange the slices in a mound upon a layer of lettuce leaves. Dress one cup of sliced nut meats with one tablepsoonful of oil, a dash of salt, and half a tablespoonful of lemon juice and dispose upon the centre of the mound. Toss together before serving.

Pineapple, Sweet Bread And Pimento Salad Recipe

Mix cubes of sweetbread, pineapple, shapes cut from pimentos and bits of celery with mayonnaise dressing mixed with whipped cream. Shape in a mound and cover with dressing. Decorate with figures cut from pimentos, and surround with lettuce. At each corner dispose a pimento, slashed on the edge, with strips of pineapple in the centre, to simulate a bright red flower.

Grape, Orange And Nut Salad Recipe

Remove the skins from California grapes - white ones preferred - cut in halves, and remove seeds. Blanch an equal quantity of English walnuts or pecan nuts, and break in pieces. Remove peel from several oranges, and cut in lengthwise slices. Dress each, separately, with oil and a little lemon juice. Mix and serve on heart leaves of lettuce. Pistachio nuts, cut in slices, in place of the almonds, and a garnish of mayonnaise make a handsomer, but more expensive, dish.

Banana And Pimento Salad Recipe

Sprinkle sliced bananas with lemon juice, to avoid discoloring, Dispose on lettuce leaves, and sprinkle with strips of pimento. Garnish with mayonnaise whitened with whipped cream.

Duck Salad Recipe

Cut the meat from a cold duck into thin strips or into cubes, marinate with salt and pepper and three portions of oil to two of sour orange juice. After standing some hours, drain and mix with half the quantity, each, of orange carpels, freed from seeds and membrane, and bits of celery. Garnish with mayonnaise and half slices of orange, from which the peeling has not been removed.

Lobster Salad Recipe

Marinate the meat of a lobster with French dressing, after cutting it in cubes; drain and add two or more hard-boiled eggs, chopped. Dispose in a mound on a bed of lettuce leaves, letting the leaves come out beyond the lobster. Surround the lobster with slices of tomato, one overlapping another, each piece holding a spoonful of mayonnaise dressing; sprinkle the whole with fine-chopped green peppers.