Skin six medium-sized boneless sardines, remove heads and tails and cut each sardine into three or four pieces. Peel three tomatoes that have been thoroughly chilled, remove the seeds, cut the tomatoes into small squares and mix with the sardines. Arrange lettuce-leaves in a salad-bowl, sprinkle the tomatoes and sardines on them, and serve with a French or mayonnaise dressing.

Tomato Baskets With Green Pease

Select large, firm tomatoes, peel them, cut off the tops and remove the seeds and soft pulp, leaving a thick outer wall of the firm flesh of the tomato. Fill each basket thus made with cold boiled green pease and place it upon a leaf of lettuce. Arrange these in a salad-bowl or upon a platter, and, in serving, heap a tablespoonful of mayonnaise on each basket, or pass the mayonnaise in a bowl or pitcher, in which is placed a spoon or small ladle, and let each guest help himself.

This is an ornamental and delicious salad. Tender beans cut into small pieces may be used instead of the pease and will be nearly as good.

Tomato Baskets With Celery

Prepare the tomatoes as in the preceding recipe. Split celery-stalks lengthwise until not much thicker than straws and cut them crosswise into half-inch lengths. Fill the tomato baskets with them and serve on lettuce-leaves with Boiled Salad Dressing, No. 1, or with mayonnaise.

Tomato Baskets With Cucumbers

Peel cucumbers, cut them into quarters, lengthwise, slice them thin, and throw them into cold water for an hour. Take them out, dry them between two folds of a towel, mix with a bit of onion no larger than a hazel-nut, minced fine, and (if you can get it) a little chopped green pepper. Season with paprica, and with this mixture fill tomato-shells, prepared as already directed. Serve on lettuce with French or mayonnaise dressing.

Tomato Baskets With Shrimps

Remove shrimps from their shells, arrange them in tomato baskets, and serve on lettuce with mayonnaise. Canned shrimps may be used in this delicious salad and are almost equal to the fresh.

Tomato Baskets With Chicken

Fill tomato baskets, made as above directed, with the white meat of chicken, minced fine. Serve on lettuce-leaves with mayonnaise.

Tomato Baskets With Sweetbreads

Boil and blanch a large pair of sweetbreads, skin them, and cut them with a sharp knife into dice. Mix a little mayonnaise with them, and fill baskets made of tomatoes, as directed in recipe for Tomato Baskets with Green Pease. Arrange on lettuce-leaves, put another spoonful of mayonnaise on top of each tomato, and serve.

These baskets may be made in a different fashion by leaving a strip of the peel to serve as a handle across the top of the basket, and carefully scooping out the pulp from under it.