Recipes For Making Celery Salads

Cheese And Celery Salad Recipe

Cut blanched celery stalks into small pieces; add half the bulk of Edam cheese broken or cut into bits; dress with French dressing; turn into a salad bowl, lined with heart leaves of lettuce. For a garnish, remove the centre from half a tomato, cut the edge in points to simulate the petals of a flower, and fill with two or three celery tips. Serve with bread and butter sandwiches.

Celery, English Walnut And Pimento Salad Recipe

Add one third cup of beaten cream to three fourths cup of mayonnaise, a cup and a half of sliced celery, three fourths cup of English walnuts, and two chopped pimentos, after cutting from the latter some fanciful figures. Arrange in nests of lettuce, garnish each with one of the figures, a nut, and celery, and place celery tips between the nests.

Celery Jelly Recipe

Let a cup of celery stalks simmer in three cups of chicken broth or water with a slice of onion, a few slices of carrot, and a sprig of parsley; strain and season with salt and pepper, To a pint of liquid add one fourth package of gelatine, softened in one fourth cup of cold water, and strain again. Tint a delicate green if wished. Mould in a ring mould; fill the centre with cubes of chicken and English walnuts, broken in pieces and dressed with mayonnaise dressing. Surround with heart leaves of lettuce, first dipped in French dressing. Chestnuts, roasted or boiled, cut in pieces and mixed with mayonnaise, are particularly good with celery jelly. The jelly is usually made from the coarse outer stalks. But the less fibrous, inner stalks may be used, and the pieces served in the jelly; introduce these as pieces of fruit in a fruit jelly.

Chicken Salad In Salad Rolls Recipe

Use by measure twice as much chicken as celery - cut the chicken in small cubes - do not chop it - and marinate with French dressing. When ready to serve, drain, add the celery, and mix with mayonnaise dressing. If boiled dressing be used, marinate the chicken with part of that, adding more with the celery when ready to serve.

Celery And Orange Salad Recipe

Clean a bunch of celery; fringe a dozen two-inch pieces and make all crisp in cold water to which lemon slices have been added. Wipe the stalks dry, then cut into bits and dress with French dressing. Turn on to a serving dish. Garnish with slices of sour orange, cut lengthwise of the orange, then in halves lengthwise, and the curled celery. Serve with roast duck.

Celery, Apple And Pistachio Salad Recipe

Let apple and celery, cut julienne fashion and sprinkled with lemon juice, stand until chilled. Mix with mayonnaise dressing, to which one fourth cup of blanched and pounded pistachio nuts has been added. Garnish with lettuce and rings of apple sprinkled with lemon juice, to keep them white; decorate with stars of mayonnaise and halved pistachio nuts. For the "rings," cut cored apples in slices.

Celery, Apple And Green Pepper Salad

Crisp the stalks of celery by letting them stand in very cold water with a slice or two of lemon half an hour. Cut the stalks into bits, pare and cut the apples into slices, and the slices into cubes or other small shapes. Sprinkle with lemon juice to avoid discoloring, and also to flavor. Scald the pepper, from which the seed and veins have been removed, and cut into fine shreds. Mix equal portions of apple and celery with such quantity of pepper as is desired. Also, English walnuts, pecan nuts, or blanched almonds, cut in small pieces, may be added. Mix with mayonnaise dressing whitened with whipped cream, and serve on lettuce leaves.