This section is from the book "The Hygienic System: Orthotrophy", by Herbert M. Shelton. Also available from Amazon: Orthotrophy.
"Recipes," says Leslie Powel, a British Natural Therapist, "are ten a penny, and most of those met with through the ordinary channels give the food-conscious person a sense of dismay. They are so often an offense against Nature, things of elaborate artifice, inviting acts of culinary sabotage, and leading in all probability to digestive derangement." He adds, "usually it will be found that the healthfullest recipes are also the simplest; we make food an unnecessarily complicated business for much of the time, without gaining much, if anything, in epicurean pleasure."
The following recipes for salads are not intended to exhaust the list of delightful salads that may be made. They are intended, rather, to serve as models or guides by which the intelligent student of nutrition may make his own salads. Many combinations of vegetables are possible in salads. These recipes for salads are simple, conforming to the principles of correct combining which should be observed in making all salads.
½ head of lettuce
1 whole tomato
1 sweet pepper
1 bunch of parsley½ head of lettuce
1 whole tomato
3 stalks of celery½ head of lettuce
1 whole ripe tomato
1 stalk of French endive1 large dish of leaf lettuce
3 stalks of green celery
1 medium sized cucumber, whole1 head of endive (chicory)
1 green pepper
1 small onion¼ head of cabbage
1 whole ripe tomato
3 stalks of green celery¼ head of cabbage
3 stalks of green celery
3 whole carrots1 large dish fresh raw spinach
2 small onions
3 stalks of green celery
1 small bunch of water cress
1 large red pepper1/4 head of lettuce
1 ripe tomato
1 whole cucumber½ head of lettuce
2 fennel roots
2 radishes¼ lb. dandelion leaves
2 small carrots
1 small onion1 small bunch water cress
1 whole cucumber
1 stalk French endive¼ head of cabbage
1 bunch of water cress
1 stalk endive1 large bunch fresh tender radish leaves
1 large ripe tomato
3 stalks celeryLettuce
Cabbage
EndiveLettuce
Fresh Corn
Raw SpinachLettuce
Cabbage
Radishes or green sweet peppersLettuce
Chinese cabbage
Onions (or scallions)
 
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