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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Salad, Flemish.— Cut off the heads and tails from two Dutch herrings, and divide them into slices of half an inch thick. Cut the fish slantwise, and place them in their natural posi- tion; add potatoes cut in squares, brussels sprouts, a few green onions, some celery, all boiled, and season with oil, vinegar, pepper, and saltSalad, Flemish. Any pickled or dried fish may be used instead of hen-ings. Salad, French.— A French salad, strictly speaking, consists of one kind of salad only, washed, dried perfectly, torn into small pieces, and mixed lightly with salad dressing, If endive, small salad, watercress, &c., are mixed with the different kinds of lettuce, the salad loses its distinctive character as a French salad. Salad, Fruit. — Currants, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, apricots, plums, oranges, pine-apples, &c., may all be served as salads. The large fruit should be pared and sliced, the small fruit picked and arranged in a dish. Powdered sugar should then be sifted thickly over, together with a table-spoonful or two of spirit or any suitable liquor. Salad, German. — Throw a pound of sauer kraut into boiling water, and let it remain for five minutes; drain and cool it. Put the same weight of red pickled cabbage into cold water. Drain it, and shred finely with the sauer kraut. Mix the two thoroughly, and add one ounce of grated horseradish, one table- spoonful of chopped chervil, and two half -boiled onionSalad, Germans finely minced. Just before serving the salad, toss the whole lightly together with six table-spoonfuls of oil, a table-spoonful of vine- gar, and a little pepper and salt. Salad Herbs. — Speaking of plants used as salad. Dr. Lankester remarks : — " First there is the lettuce [Lactiica satlva). This plant is a cul- tivated variety of the wild lettuce [Lactucavirosa). It contains in its juice an active principle, which in large quantities exercises a narcotic influence on the human system. The watercress {Nas- turtium officinale). This plant grows wild in ditches and damp places in this country, and is also extensively cultivated in the neighbourhood of London. It contains a large quantity of mineral matter, and in some districts is found to contain iodine. The endive {Cic/iorinm Endii'ia). This plant is probably a variety of the common chicory {dehor iuiii Intybus). It is cultivated extensively on the Continent, and its blanched leaves are eaten as a salad. It can be obtained in the winter. It has a slightly bitter taste, and acts as a tonic on the system. Celery is the Apium graveolens. A\Tien wild this plant con- tains an acrid principle, which is i^oisonous, but by culture its stalks are blanched, and it then becomes an agreeable and valuable article of food. The garden-ci-ess is the Lepidium safiru)». This plant is not a native of Great Britain, but it is easily cultivated and extensively used as an SAL ( 794) SAL