Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-18

dark place until the seeds sprout. keeping
water in the plate constantly Then bring
10 hght and when the shoots are q few inches
long trim them of as wanted and add TO any
salad with plain dressing.
PRETTY oREES SALADS
A sharp little salad is made Of watercresses
with cold. freshly boiled new beets. One Of
the incest breakfast salads is made Of the ten
der inner leaves of lettuce, with pepper
grass crosse and tiny French raddishes Gu
curhoers ana sLced new onions make a healthy
COMBINATION. Cold boiled string beans or caui-
mower are host in themselves. A salad
maker should possess the soul of an artist He
should know how to cunninglv enhance the
dencate beauty OF pale green slices of cucumber
WITH the rich red of tomatoes, and to set both
forth with border of curled parsley and
crosses. what can be handsomer than a GRIM
son tomato that has been robbed of Its skin bv
a Turkish bath and imbedd,d IN ice until cool
ana hrm, and then decorated with a great
Der?
SALAD A Ia RCssE,
This Is a particularly suitable salad for
cold weather. The basis Of it is macedoine.
or vegetable salad. For this cook separately in
salted water cubes of carrots, beets, potatoes
ana turmps; drain on cloth and have also
boiled and drained some green peas dice of
green beans and small iowerets of cauliaov-
ers. The seasoning OF this macedonia Is a
simple French dressing, with chopped onion,
parsley and chervil scattered over the whole
but Tor the salad russo add TO the dressing a
gill OF melted meat Jelly and Sarnlsh with
strips OF roasted game or poultry, red herring
anchovy. smoked salmon and Russian caviare
The prudent housewife can arrange for this
salad two or three days beforehand by saving
in her ice chest small portions of the several
vegetables from various dinners, together with
bits OF poultry and game. The other ingredi-
ents can be purchased in the smallest quantities
at any delicatessen.
SOME CURIOUS SALADS.
A queer little salad comes from Normandy.
Pick over some garden cress, wash and drain
IN wire basket; put in the salad bowl and
slice over it very thinly sour apples that have
been peeled and cored. Do not let your preju-
ulces deter you from trying this with dinner
say, OF roast pig or roast fresh pork.
Another curious salad is made in this way:
Place some cold baked or boiled beans in the
salad dish, lay around circle of the white
parts OF celery cut in very small bits, pour over
French dressing and put very thin slices of
irieu smoked bacon on top; garnish with few
OF the tender inner leaves of lettuce and
sprinkle all with a spoonful of capers
French salad which may prove blessing
to those who have an antipathy to oil is made
with cream instead. Arrange the lettuce or
other greens lii the salad bowl pour over
mixed salt, pepper and vinegar: toss well and
pour cup OF thick sweet cream over all. again
mixing thoroughly.
An Italian salad is made with cold cooked
vegetables of every kind The dressing is a
green mayonnaise or one to which a spoonful
OF ravlgote sauce has been added
SALADS WITHOUT OIL.
Some persons object to the use of oil in
salad dressing. Let such try this excellent
way: Beat the yelks Of two eggs, take half a
cupful of milk. teaspoonful each of mustard
SALT butter, white sugar, half a teaspoonful of
pepper. Put in a small saucepan in the top of
the tea Kettle and STIR regularly. When cooked
to the consistency of cream add half a cupful
OF vinegar. then mix in the well-beaten whites
OF the two eggs after it is taken from the kettle
Five minutes is ample time to make il, though
SO many ingredients are called for.
A CLOSING HINT.
Upon the washing of green vegetables for
salads much of their excellence depends. They
should be shaken about without breaking in a
large pan of cold water well sailed. since the
action of the salt will destroy all the minute in
habltants of their fresh green coverts and once
dead they will sink to the bottom of the water
from sheer force of gravity. When the salad
plants are free from sand and insects they
should be shaken without breaking their
leaves in colander, a wire basket or a dry
napkin until no moisture adherss to them
Then they may be used At once or kept until
wanted IN cool. dry place, when dishes can
be concocted that would set the tongues of the
gods waggling with a will