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The Cook County cook book

1912

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Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
CARTWHEEL SALAD.— Crisp 1 bunch of lettuce and ar- range on individual salad plates. Peel 2 orangesCartwheel Salad and cut in J/2- inch slices crosswise. Cut 4 ^-inch slices of onion crosswise. Arrange 1 slice of onion between 2 of orange, place on lettuce and pour 5^ cup of French dressing over all.— Mrs. F. C. Winter, Win- netka, 111. CAULIFLOWER SALAD.— Res^ve the leaves from 1 large cauliflower and boil for 5^ hr. in slightly salted water. Take out, drain, and divide it into small branches. Arrange the center of a dish, and garnish with strips of pickled beets. Pour mayonnaise or cream dressingCauliflower Salad over, and serve quickly with hot cheese wafers. —Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Winnetka, 111. VARIATION I. — ^Separate the sprigs or flowerets of cold boiled cauliflower, put into the salad dish a head of lettuce and cover it with mayonnaise. Arrange the cauliflower sprigs around the dish^ heads outward, and serve. Sprinkle with chopped pimen- tos, if desired.— Mrs. D. E. Allen, 423 9th St.,' Wilmette, 111. CAULIFLOWER AND BEET SALAD.— Dress flowers of cold cooked cauliflower with oil, salt, pepper and vinegar or lemon juice. Dress the shredded outside leaves of a head of lettuce. Cut a beet in figures and the chopped trimmings, each separately, with the same ingredients. Dispose the lettuce in the center of a serv- ing dish, and the carefully drained cauliflower above. Sprinkle with the figures cut from the beet, and dispose the chopped beet in points around the central mass. Serve mayonnaise in a dish, apart. — ^Mrs. F. C. Winter, Winnetka, 111. CELERY SALAD, — Slice crisp white celery across the stalk, forming crescent-shaped pieces, or chop very fine, and add salad dressing. To the above salad may be adde3 any of the following" 446 CHEESE, MACARONI, NUTS & RICE, ETC. ingredients: Sweet or sour apples, malaga grapes, cheese, boiled select chestnuts, blanched almonds, any desired nuts, chopped or broken, cold cooked beans of any kind, sliced, cubed or chopped cold beets, shredded cab'bage, diced, cooked or raw carrots or tur- nips, cooked cauliflower flowerets, crisp shredded cress, lettuce, endive or dandelion, chopped hard-boiled eggs, rose, violet or nas- turtium petals, minced parsley, chives, nasturtium seed pods, pi- mentos, radishes, cooked peas, chopped onions, cold cooked sau- sages, any meat, fowl, fish or game, trufifles, sweetbreads, or any meat combination. — Mabel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn St., Chi- cago, 111. VARIATION I.— Pare the stalks from 3 bunches of celery, clean them, wipe dry with a napkin, chop, and fill a salad bowl, adding a very little salt, pepper, and 3 tablespoons of vinegarCelery Salad. Do not use any oil.-^Mrs. Robert S. Appleton, 1128 Center Ave., Wil- mette, 111. VARIATION II.— Boil a cup of milk, thickened with 1 table- spoon of corn starch, dissolved in milk. Mix well together 1 beaten egg, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, % teaspoon of dry mustard, 1 small pinch of cayenne pepper. Pour this into the hot milk a little at a time, stirring constantly. 'When quite smooth take off of the fire and add a tablespoon or more of vine- gar, to suit taste. Mix well together and pour over celery, cut into very small bits. — Mrs. A. E. Rowland, 506 S. 4th Ave., May- wood, 111. CELERY, APPLE AND GREEN PEPPER SALAD.— Crisp Celery, Apple and Green Pepper Salad