Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-11-03

Salads And Health.

with Qlnner or iuncHeOu. Ambfl-
cans as whole wanted regularly
their just deserts, and a green leaf !
or two, more or less. counted for /,
very little.
In the Pie Belt, pastry was the
necessary garnish for every meal.
Down South, there were always
famous buildings for the complete
epicure. and IL salad was served
at all decade ago, it was a ponder
GUS meat affair Of which an entire !
indigestable meal was made.
But today we are wiser and a
sadder nation. Pies and buildings
have wrought out their own punish
ment, and everywhere the dyspep-
tic microbe is lurking in our midst,
seeing what comfort and Joy be may
devour- We have paid heavily be-
cause we scorned the green leaf TO
tighten our meals aud sweeten our
digestion.
In any case we resorry, and we're
reforming and suburban market
gardens are filing our cities with
delicious greens, sold for few
cents. and the American housekeeper
is gaining reputation as the most
accomplished maker of unusual and
wholesome and economical salads in
the world.
And why not, once you awaken
an American woman's interest In
anything, clothes. outdoor sports or
foods, and straightway she sets
about to excel. She makes the
smartest clothes. and is the finest
sportswoman and the best cook in
the world.
This craze for green's has partly
come about through travelling
abroad where salads are such an
important article OF diet. and partly
through their widespread recon-
mendation by physicians. The best
known New York physicians are
adding fresh greens to their diet
sheets for invalids, especially for
dyspeptics and nervous patients
one hundred times where ten years
ago they would have appeared once
But you must bear In mind that
by salads are meant fresh green
things from the garden or hot house,
lettuce, endive, escarol, cabbage,
celery, chives, onions, fruits and bot
meat soaked in oil or hard egg
sauce
Some Of the most delicious Ameri-
can Salads are fruitsand vegetables
mixed, and served with cream dres.
sing. Apples make an ideal winter
salad chopped with celery, about
one-fourth, and then q few hickory
nuts, half cup to a large bowl.
The apples must be chopped the
last thing or they will discolor.
This salad is delicious with real
Italian Mayonnaise ora cream dress
ing.
And oranges are delicious with
celery, and apples with pineapples,
or an entire salad Of celery and mix
ed nuts, but this would be shade
richer than dyspeptic would re-
quire.
The most economical OF all winter
salads is cabbage, and one OF the
most delicious. 1t should be chop
ped fine just before serving, and
a tablespoonful OF fine chopped onion
and two OF green pappers should be
added to quart, then French or
cream dressing, and all at the ex-
pense Of a few cents.
An excellent variation from the
plain French dressing Of oil, vine
gar and salt, is as follows: Half
teaspooonful OF salt, pinch Of SUI
gar, eighth of teaspoonful Paprika,
few drops OF Tabasco sauce, add
quarter OF cup OF vinegar and
slowly drop In oil until II thiekens,
beating all the time.
A simply cream dressing where
oil is not relished, is made with
very little trouble aud is delicious.
Take the juice OF a lemon, mix with
half teaspoonful OF sugar and salt,
and the white Of beaten egg, then
drop In rich cream, slowly so that
it will not curdle. Serve cold.
One reason possibly that Ameri-
cans were slow TO acquire q real re-
lish OF salads may have been be-
cause Of the fear OF devouring in-I
sects and microbes along with green
leaves. 1t seems so difficult to get
anything that is uncooked through
ly, hygienically wholesome. But
the London doctors seem TO have
solved the difficulty by ordering
all greens. eaten in hospitals or by
their patients anywhere, to be
washed III week solution OF borax
water
or course the purest borax must
be used aud the solution must be
always fresh. Half a teaspoonful OF
borax powder to basin of fresh
water is about the right proportion.
Each leaf should be separately dip
ped up and down several times To
insure perfect cleanness, and rinsed
in clear water ifconvenient. Though
If the greens were not rinsed, no
harm would be done, as the borax
solution is absolutely without In
furious properties, would in fact be