This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Soak in warm water for 15 minutes some dried smoked herring or salmon. Cut in small pieces, mix with mayonnaise or French dressing, and garnish with lettuce. The fish may be left whole and served with apple salad.
Use the innermost part of a head of cabbage. Cut and chop very fine, add lemon and olive oil, and mix with mayonnaise dressing. A cold grated potato may be added for those who have difficulty in digesting cabbage.
Carefully wash some watercress, dry, and mix with equal parts of sliced tomatoes. Use French or mayonnaise dressing.
Carefully wash and mix with finely cut green onions and French dressing.
Wash and serve plain or mix with lemon and olive oil.
Remove the skin and bones from a smoked herring. Cut the fish into small pieces, and mix with thinly sliced apples or tomatoes, and salad dressing. Garnish with lettuce. Serve with soda crackers or with wheat or rye bread.
Cut the tender white stalks into small pieces. Add chopped apples and nuts or salad dressing.
Soak the fish for half an hour, remove the bones, fins, and head. Chop' up green onions and parsley. Cut tomatoes or apples into small pieces and mix with equal parts of fish, add the onions and mix with French or mayonnaise dressing. Lettuce and hard boiled eggs cut in halves may be mixed or served with it.
Prepare the same as anchovy salad. Use pickled herring.
Wash and slice some radishes, mix with chopped onions, finely cut chipped beef or any left-over meat or ham. Garnish with lettuce, and serve with French or mayonnaise dressing.
Stone and slice some ripe olives. Mix with equal parts of thinly sliced tomatoes and French or mayonnaise dressing. Serve on lettuce.
Wash the rhubarb, cut the red part of it into one inch pieces and mix with mayonnaise dressing.
Arrange some lettuce in a salad bowl, add chopped or-sliced apples, onions and parsley, and mix with French or mayonnaise dressing. Grapenuts or ryenuts may be sprinkled over it. Serve with fish, meat or cheese.
Cut off the tips of raw asparagus, arrange some lettuce or watercress in a salad bowl, and mix with French or mayonnaise dressing. Sliced tomatoes may be added. Boiled asparagus may be prepared in the same way.
Arrange some lettuce or watercress in a dish, select fresh mushrooms, wash and mix with French dressing, and pour over the green leaves.
Arrange lettuce and sliced bananas in a salad bowl, adding a French dressing of lemon and olive oil. Ryenuts or grape-nuts may be sprinkled over it. Scrape off the inside of the skin of the bananas, and mix with it.
 
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