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The new home cook book

1896

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Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take cold vegetables left from dinner, such as potatoes, peas, string beans, shell beans, beets, etc., and chill them on the ice ; cover with mayonaiseVegetable Salad, and serve. You may use for this any salad dressing. POTATO SALAD. M. A. T. Sliced cold boiled potatoes ; almonds blanched and quartered ; hickory-nuts, also, if liked (both of these may be omitted). A very small quantity of chopped onions ; pour over this any good salad dressing, not too much, and garnish with chopped parsley; cold boiled beets, sliced lemon, and anchovies, may be added to the saladPotato Salad, if liked. POTATO SALAD. Mix a nice salad dressing of one teaspoonful of salt ; a little pepper ; two tablespoons of fine cut crisped parsley ; grate onion, about two teaspoonsful, with four tablespoons of salad oil or butter. To this add eight tablespoons of 126 THE HOME COOK BOOK. vinegar; slice two quarts of cold boiled potatoes — have these slices not very thin ; pour over the dressing, and let them stand half an hour before serving. ASPARAGUS SALAD. Boil the asparagus in a water until tender; cut off the hard ends, and set the rest away. When cool, cut in inch long pieces, and put it in your salad dish. Pour over a mayonaise dressing, and garnish with a few capersAsparagus Salad. CUCUMBER SALAD. Mrs. King. Take a dozen ripe " white spine " cucumbers ; wash, pare and cut into strips, taking out the seeds ; cut into pieces, like small dice ; to each dozen cucumbers, take twelve large white onions chopped ; six large green pep- pers, also chopped ; one-quarter pound each of black and white mustard seed, and a gill of celery seed ; mix all well together ; add a teacup of salt, and hang up in a cotton bag to drain for twenty-four hours. Then add enough clear cold vinegar to cover itCucumber Salad; put into stone jars and fasten nearly air tight. In six weeks it will be fit for use. Excellent. TOMATO SALAD. Miss Spruance. Twelve tomatoes, peeled and sliced ; four eggs, boiled hard ; one egg (raw) well beaten ; one teaspoon salt ; one-half teaspoon cayenne pepper ; one teaspoon sugar ; one teacup of vinegarTomato Salad ; set on ice to become perfectly cold. VALUABLE EECIPES. 327 DKESSING FOR SALAD. Mrs. Hoge. Two raw eggs, one tablespoon of butter, eight table- spoons of vinegar; one-half teaspoon of mustardDressing for Salad; put in a bowl over boiling water and stir until it becomes like cream ; pepper and salt to your taste. SALAD DRESSING. Mrs. A. A. Carpenter. The yolks of four eggs, two-thirds of a cup of oil, red pepper, salt and mustard to taste ; the juice of two lemons, and last of all, one cup of thick cream. If the dressing is for chicken salad, use the oil or fat from the chicken instead of sweet oil. Be sure and put the cream in last, just before sending to table. SALAD DRESSING. M. A. T.