The Times cook book, no. 2

NO. 1. POETIC RECEIPT FOR SALAD. Miss Broome (temporary residence,) 2601 Cottage avenue, Berkeley, Cal.— The Rev. Sidney Smith, the witty canon of St. Paul's, London, who thought that an enjoyment of good things of this earth was compatible with aspirations of things higher, wrote the following excellent receipt for salad, when the hot weather invites to a dish of cold lamb: Two large potatoes (boiled) pass'd through kitchen sieve. Smoothness and softness to the salad give; Of mordent mustard add a single spoon, Distrust the condiment that bites too soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault, To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; True flavor needs it, and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs. Let onion's atoms lurk within the bowl, And scarce suspected, animate the whole; And, lastly, in the flavor'd compound toss A magic spoonful of anchovy sauce. Oh! great and glorious, and herbaceous treat, 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his weary soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl. NO. 2. AMBROSIA SALAD. L. E. M., 2713 Brighton avenue — Make a cup of the white heart of a crisp lettuce head; pile a few big red strawberries in cup and dust lightly with powdered sugar. Put in also a teaspoon of mayonnaise dressing. NO. 3. APPETIZING SALAD. L. Neilson, 1019 East Thirty-fourth street — Prepare a bunch of water cress, same as lettuce, letting it become crisp in cold water; then dry well; peel and core as many apples as needed, cut into dice; chop a hard-boiled egg, sprinkle over the top of salad. Make a French dressing, pour over the whole just before serving. This is excellent with game or roast duck. NO. 4. APPLE-CELERY SALAD. Mrs. Sherman Bullis, Dolgeville, Cal. — Chop equal parts of celery and tart apples and salt to taste, then make a dressing of one-half cup vinegar, two eggs, a piece of butter size of walnut, or tablespoon olive oil, if liked, and three tablespoons cream. Cook the eggs and . vinegar in double boiler, then add butter, or oil, and last beat in the cream. (This is strictly original.) NO. 5. ARTISTIC iSALAD FOR SIX. Lurline Middleton, 1542 West Eleventh street — Take six even-sized cucumbers, and the same of tomatoes, and cut the tops off nicely (cutting the cucumbers lengthwise) and scrape out the inside of both and mix with two belle peppers, a few lettuce leaves and one-quarter of an onion and chop fine; then refill the cucumber and tomato shells and arrange on salad plates, a cucumber and tomato to each plate, surround with lettuce leaves, and put a teaspoon of mayonnaise on top of each cucumber and tomato.