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

apples are among the suitable fruits for salads. The almond butter dressing is as desirable as the cream dressing. Pear and apple or apple or pineapple alone with the almond dressing are especially delightful. The whipped cream dressing may be used when more convenient. =★ Currant and Red Raspberry Salad= 1 pt. each red raspberries and very ripe currants, 1 or 2 teaspns. of fine chopped tarragon, basil or sassafras leaves, with lemonade dressing of 1½ tablespn. each of lemon juice and water and two tablespns. of sugar. Serve in glasses or cups with suitable decoration. The flavorings may be omitted. Pineapple with either the currants or raspberries without the flavorings is excellent. Orange and red raspberries; grape fruit and strawberries; apple and strawberries; apple, grape fruit and strawberries or orange; apple, banana and strawberries and other combinations of juicy fruits will suggest themselves from the preceding. When a sweeter fruit than currants is used the proportion of sugar in the regular lemonade dressing is sufficient. =★ Mint Fruit Salads= Oranges or grape fruit or apples with shredded mint and lemonade dressing (water omitted in first two) are the most delightfully refreshing of salads. =Nut and Banana Salad= Roll small peeled bananas in any of the sweetened cream dressings, then in chopped nuts. Serve on individual plates with a spoonful of dressing, with orange points and candied cranberries or cherries, or frosted currants for garnish. =Apple and Cranberry Salad= Grind ripe cranberries fine and mix with a liberal supply of one of the sweetened cream dressings. Prepare apple also with the dressing and place the two in high alternating diagonal rows on a platter with lettuce border; or prepared apples may be placed on the platter and spoonfuls of the cranberry dropped on top. Whole berries may dot the lettuce border. =Sweet Fruit and Cocoanut Salads= Fresh grated cocoanut in center of dish, border of black or red raspberries, blueberries, sliced or halved peaches or bananas, cream dressing--sweet or whipped cream dressing. No lettuce. =Oriental Salad= Grape fruit and oranges--mayonnaise. The dressing sometimes tinted delicately with pink and green or