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Melt and cool Crisco. Prepare celery and cut into very thin strips and plunge in ice water until wanted. Blanch and shred almonds; wash and dry lettuce leaves. Put yolk of egg into bowl, add mustard, salt, and Salads red pepper and mix well with wooden spoon. Add sugar, teaspoonful lemon juice, teaspoonful vinegar; beat in Crisco gradually. Remove spoon and beat with egg beater five minutes, then beat in rest of lemon juice and vinegar. Add more seasonings ie needed and enough green color to make it look pretty. Dry celery and mix with almonds, then toss them into dressing. Serve on lettuce leaves. Fruit Salad Dressing 1 tablespoonful Crisco 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar Pinch of salt 2 eggs 2 tablespoonfuls sugar Y% pint whipped cream Salad 24 marshmallows 2 juicy apples 1 can pineapple 6 oranges ! Lettuce leaves For salad. Cut fruit and marshmallows into small pieces, then mix and chill. For dressing. Beat up eggs in double boiler, add vinegar, sugar, salt, Crisco and cook until thick. Cool and add whipped cream. Mix with fruit and serve on crisp lettuce leaves. Orange and Tomato Salad 3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley 4 tomatoes Tarragon vinegar 4 oranges Salt Peel oranges and tomatoes, and slice and arrange alternately in salad bowl. Mix juice squeezed from ‘‘tops and bottoms” of oranges with an equal quantity of tarragon vinegar, add Crisco and salt to taste. Pour over fruit and sprinkle chopped parsley on top. Potato and Nut Salad For Dressing For Salad 5 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 3 cupfuls sliced cold potatoes 1 teaspoonful mustard 1 cupful broken hickory nut 1 teaspoonful salt meats 2 teaspoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful chopped onion 2 yolks of eggs Chopped parsley 34 cupful cream or milk Cold cooked sliced beets 1% cupful vinegar Sliced lemon Lettuce leaves For dressing. Mix sugar, salt, and mustard, add Crisco and stir thoroughly; then add yolks of eggs well beaten, cream, and lastly vinegar. Cook in double boiler until consistency of cream. If milk is used instead of cream, add 1 teaspoonful flour to other dry ingredients. For salad. Mix potatoes, nuts, and onion together, and place on crisp lettuce leaves; pour over dressing and garnish to taste with beets, lemon, and parsley. Salads Potato and Pimiento Salad 1 tablespoonful Crisco Y% can pimientos 4 potatoes 1 tablespoonful chopped 2 hard-cooked eggs cucumber pickle 1 teaspoonful salt Dressing, 1 tablespoonful Crisco 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 2 teaspoonfuls dry mustard 1 lemon 1 teaspoonful salt 1% pint vinegar 2 eggs For salad. Boil potatoes and slice them, add Crisco and salt. Now chop pickles, eggs, and pimientoes and add them and set in cool place to chill. For dressing. Put vinegar into double boiler, add strained lemon juice, sugar, salt, mustard, then add Crisco and eggs well beaten. Cook until thick, then cool and use. Shrimp Salad 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 lemon "1 can shrimps 4 tablespoonfuls vinegar 1 cupful celery cut in cubes 2 tablespoonfuls water 1 cupful tart apples cut in 4 eggs cubes 1 teaspoonful dry mustard 1 cupful broken Brazil nut 1 teaspoonful salt meats 1 teaspoonful sugar * ¥ cupful broken English Y% teaspoonful white pepper walnut meats Y% cupful thick cream and 1 Salt and pepper to taste cupful whipped cream Crisp lettuce leaves