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The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

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The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

by Perkins, Evora Bucknum · Page 235 of 439 · 153,580 words

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tablespn. oil or butter 2 level tablespns. sugar 1 level teaspn. salt 1 good pint chopped cabbage Beat eggs in the inner cup of a double boiler, pour slowly over them stirring, a boiling mixture of all the remaining ingredients except the cabbage; add the cabbage and cook until just creamy. Serve at once. =Cold Slaw= Cool hot slaw, and just before serving, add ¼ cup of cream, whipped. The slaw is excellent without the cream, however. =Cauliflower Salad= Serve flowerets of cauliflower, cooked according to directions, p. 246, masked with improved mayonnaise or with cream improved mayonnaise dressing on a bed of shredded lettuce in a border of lettuce leaves garnished with parsley or nasturtiums. Pass dressing. =★ Dominion or French Sam’s Salad= Skim from a pan of thick sour milk, equal quantities of cream and milk. Beat lightly together and mix with nice crisp shredded lettuce and salt. I wish I could tell you how highly I prize this recipe. Try it. =English Salad= Tear in pieces with the fingers, nice crisp lettuce, mix with it a few leaves of shredded fresh mint, and pour English salad dressing over. Serve at once. =Spinach Leaf Salad= Select the tender inside leaves of spinach, wash well and serve with French or mayonnaise dressing or in almost any way that lettuce is used, the flavor of which they almost excel. =Salad à la Russe, or Russian Salad= Combine as great a variety of starchless vegetables in different colors as convenient. Celery, onions, carrots, beets, green peas, red and green French beans and string beans make a good combination. Turnips, asparagus, cauliflower, chives and parsley may be used also, and some like a flavoring of celery seed. Cut the larger vegetables into small pieces or dice, or into fancy shapes with vegetable cutters (the pieces left after cutting out the shapes with vegetable cutters may be chopped and used as the base of the salad, or for another salad or for soup); cut the string beans into diamond shapes and chop the onion very fine. Pile the lightly mixed vegetables in the

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