The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-23

three or four slices of beet root, the white
of the egg, not cut too small, and then the
lettuce itself, which should be torn from
the head stock by the fingers. Some French
salad dsessers say, "fativuez la salade."
which means shake it. mix it and bruise it;
but the modern arrangement to delicately
cover the leaves with the dressing and not
to bruise it. This is an old-fashioned salad
from ar old recipe.
An excellent salad of cold boiled potatoes
cut into slices about an nch thick may be
made with thin slices of fresh beet root,
and onions cut very hin and very little of
them, with the same dressing minus the
sugar.
Francatelli speaks of a Russian salad with
lobster, a German salad with behring's, and
an Italian salad with potatoes. But these
come more under the head of m%ayOnnaises
than of the simpler salads.
The cucumber comes next to lettuce as a
purely valuable vegetable salad, and il
most desirable with fish. Dr.. johnson de-
clared that the best thing you could do with
a cucumber, after you had prepared it with
much care and thought, was to throw it out
he could write Rasselas and a dictionary,
knew nothing about the art of entertaining.
He was an eater, a g~lutton, a g%ourmand,
not a gourmet. How should he dare to
speak against a cucumber salad!
Endive and chicory should be added to
tuc ll6b VI VoptthUlo bhlhuSs No1tuel u
them ID good. however.
An old-fashioned French salad is made
thus: Chop three a%nchoyies. an onion and
some parsley small; put them in u bowl
with two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one of
oil, a llttle mustard and salt. When we'll
mixed add some slices of cold roast beef not
exceeding two and three inches long. Make
three hours before eating. Garnish with
parsley.
This is by no means a bad way of serving
up Yesterdays roast beef.
The etymology of salad is said to be
SAL, or ''somethinR salted." Shakespeare
mentions the salad five or six times. In
peril, when hiding from his pursuers in
lda's garden, says ''he has climbed over
the wall to see if he could eat grass, or pick
a salad" which he says will not come
amiss to cool a mans stomach in the hot
weather." In Anthony and Cleopatra, the
passionate queen speaks of her Salad
days when she was green in judgement,
cool In blood" Ihia means, however, some
thing raw or unripe. Hamlet uses the
word with the more ancient photography of
sallet, and says III his speech to the play
ers: II remember when there were no sal
let's in these times to make them savory."
BY thiaoe meant there WAS nothing piquant
in them, no attic salt. One author not 40
illustrious claims hat tho noblest prerog-
alive of man ia that he is n cooking animal.
and a salad eater.
"The lion is generous aB a hero, the rat
artful az a lawyer, the dove gentle as a
lover, the beaver is a good engineer. tho
monkey is q clever actor, but none of them
can make a salad. The wisest sheep never
thought Of quilting and contssting his
grasses, seasoning them with thyme or Tar
ragon, softening them with oil. sxasper-
stinE them mustard, sharpening them with
vinegar. spiritualizing them with a suspi-
oion Of onions. In that no sheep has
made n salad, their only sauce 10 hunger"
Salads, says this pleasant writer, were in
vented by Adam n Eve, probably made
Of pomsngranates az to-day, in Spain.
or all salads, lobster salad 10 tho most
10 a trumpet O n to appetite. 1t lies en-
bedded in green leaves like u magnificent
tropical cactus. A good dressing for lob