Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-04-29
90 Table Talks..
by Jeanette Boyer, Home Service Dept,
Royal Milling Company
SPRING SALAD ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Helen Hoyt)
Slender cold green cucumbers.
Tomatoes living red
Onions are pearly comets with trails of
green;
The wax OF beans and yellow of celery.
Tho bulglng pea-pods
Are pleasant to look at,
And the full-curved eggplant. purple
In corpulent royalty.
The cauli1ower is a bride. goes dwaintily
Beside the ~cabbages and iounced lettuce
balls,
The stin. prickly f~oreigness of pineapples.
Asparagus like stacked-up spears and
lances.
Parsnips In rustic brown.
Lean pink Of carrots, watercress and mint.
And the crooked gnarled horse-radish
roots
Gold-warted squashes. spinach and rag
ged endive,
And here lie peppers made OF green jade.
Whether you have a taste for modern
poetry or not, I know you nave a taste
for spring salads. / stopped before the
window of such a vegetable store as
Helen Hoyt describes, yesterday. and felt
like a little canary, starving for crisp
fresh green stuff. l am envious Of every
one with homes II kitchens. who need
not subsist on boarding house fare. and
can founder herself and family on let
tuce II she wishes.
Since this is spring, and spring veg
! etables are young. tender n yet a novel
treat. why not make spring salads with
their proper accomplishments, the delight
of your luncheon or dinner parties, or
even serve as the special refreshment for
an afternoon or evening Of bridge?
May 1 suggest then the accompani-
ments? / shall let you look through
your own scrap book or file for the salads
When salad is served with the main
course of a dinner. 1t is unnecessary to
have a special accompaniment. But
when 1t appears alone as a course or as
refreshment, it needs something to &c
with 1t. something bland to contrast with
the sharp acids and ~seasonings.
Plain salt waters, or simple buttered
sandwiches Of white or brown bread are
always acceptable M always right. Yet
If you would like to be more fanciful
small sandwiches OF nut bread, ratsir
bread. orange bread, or plain bread
spread with cheese or marmalade will
add new enjoyment to old salad com
b%inations. Toast. very brown and dry
is sweet and nutty. Sticks OF 1T, lightly
buttered, perhaps sprinkled with CHINA.
mon contrast in texture and flavor with
soft tart fruit or vegetable salads. A
hot buttered parker-house roll with 6
service of vegetable salad is welcome Of
an orange biscuit.
Crackers may be varied as we'll a,
bread and butter. Salt waters. spreao
lightly with butter and then busted with
paprika are jolly as we'll as tasty. Or thu
white crackers may be spread with but
ter or cheese and put under a broilel
flame for a few minutes until the butter
or cheese melts. Butter crackers, spread
with butter, form the perfect combina'
ton with shrimp salad or crab Louis.
Try them once and you'll never be abb.
to eat shrimp salad without crying fol
buttered butter crackers.
Asparagus salad. caulifiower salad ane
many OF the vegetable combinations arr
best enhanced with cheese straws o.
cheese drops, or Scotch waters. while
nut pastry sticks belong exclusively t.
the whipped cream variety Of fruit salads
If perchance you do not have any o.
these recipes the following rules will
guide you:
Cheese Straws
One-half lib, grated yellow American
cheese, "a ID. butter. Q cups Rex -four,
tsp. baking powder.
cheese, work in with n Knead. COO
on ice. Roll thin like pastry, cut intt
even strips and bake In hot oven.
Nut Pastry Sticks
Roll plain pastry about o%ne-fourth incl
in thickness and cut in long marrow
strips. Place on baking sheet and bak'
In hot oven. When sticks are almos
done, brush over with egg white which
has been slightly beaten and diluted will
a little cold water. Sprinkle sticks gen
erously with chopped pecan nut meats
return to oven to brown nuts.
Scotch Waters
One cup fine oatmeal, l cup rollet
oats, Q cups Rex flour. q cup sugar.
tsp. salt, IA tsp. soda, Ia cup shortening
"a cup hot water.
Mix all the dry ingredients. Melt tn
shortening in the hot water n add t
first mixture. Toss III a Toured board
pat and roll as thinly as possible. Shap