Evening star., 1928-05-18

hasd-boiled eggs and aSpic cut in fancy
shapes are great aids in garnishing
salads to make them decorative and
appetixing, Paprika cheese balls to
serve with salad are little balls OF
cream cheese over which sprinkling
OF paprika has been lightly busted.
Cucumhers prepared as follows are
GOOD to serve with fish salads: Peel
the cucuuhers and slice them very
thin. Place the slices in ice water
that has been well Salted and let stand
for several hours. An hour or so be-
fore serving them place them IN
clean niece Of cheeSecloth ana tifen
squeeze out all the water from them.
Then nlace them in q small dish. cover
with French dressing. or with vinegar,
and nut them in the refrigerator until
ready to serve. Pass when the salad
Stuffed celery may be served on the
nlafe with a salad. To prepare. cut
the celery into pieces convenient lor
handling. Fill the hollow OF the celery
stalks with cream cheese mixed viii
chopped pimento. green pepper, nuts,
olives or a combination of two or more
These are good vegetable salad COM
binations: /. Beets. onions, celery.
cabbage. 2. Cabbage. peanuts. celery
or celery salt. chopped onion. ;. Car
rnts. peas. celery. cabbage. I. Kidney
beans, celery. chopped onion or onion
Juice, chopped pickle. 5. Beets, celery,
din pickle. g. Arrange stalks OF Iresn
cooked or canned asparagus on iet-
suce leaf. and place strips of red
rin1ento over the asparagus. Z. For
each individual serving arrange three
slices of tomato on lettuce leaves. IN
the center make mound OF cottaSe
cheese which has been mixed WITH
cream. salt and pepper. Serve all these
salads with dressing.
Salad dressing variations: J. Seaio
handful of cleaned spinach ana masn
II verv fine with butter. This thinned
with French dressing may be used with
fish. A very tasty fish dressing Is mace
by chopping parsley very fine and add
Ing ii to butter with enough vinegar 70
give n sharp acid taste. To cup the
Tarsiev, take q small bunch OF it in the
hands. press the leaves tightly together
to make ball, then snip with the scl-
Sors. 2. A quick Thousand Island dress
ing may be made with egg yoiks. 10
four welI-beaten yolkS add one can OF
condensed milk. beat well, add mustard
and vinegar TO taste and beat again;
then add sweet pickles, olives ana
nsnentos chopped flne. 3. This is to
Ifse over ieIlsed fruit salad. Mash 70
smooth pulp very ripe banana, moisten
with pineapple Juice and beat into
saayonnaise with little whipped cream
!. Use mayonnaise with chopped stuffed
olives and finely chopped celery. Serve
with q crisp green salad .. ACC
whipped cream to mayonnaise dressing
lust before serving This is very good
with fruit salad. 6. Mix one cupful OF
rnaynunaisa dressing with half cupful
OF chill sauce or catsup. II desired ada
D little chopped celery or green pepper
or pickle If catsup is used.
Try These Salads.
Scaid some tomatoes, peel them. cut
into cubes, and chill Peel and cube
g1ne cucumber for every two tomatoes.
Pare and shred one Spanish onion and
nnance 6ne one sweet green paper from
which al the seeds have been removed.
"A gDconfuI or finely minced cllives may
be aided before adding mayonnaise or
French dressing, but the salad is de-
lacious without It.
INK tiny bits Of cold boiled ham with
Neufchatel cheese. Pile on Lettuce
leaf inside of separate rings OF small
Spanish onions. On this put spoonful
of naayunnaise and the crtlmbled yolks
cf hard-boiled egg
Cut q slice from a cucumber ana
scOoD out the inside. Cut bits OF
tomato in similar size and mix botn
with French dressing. Return TO the
cucumber shell and put each cucumber
on q plate By itself OH lettuce leaf.
Small round balls Of cream cheese are
nice with this
Ma some string beans that have
been drained from their liquid with
finely chopped onion and diced celery.
Add boiled salad dressing. Use fork
and mix gently so as not TO mash the
beans.
On q bed Of watercress arrange thin
slices Of Bermuda onion very mid fav-
Fored and slices Of orange alternately.
Garnish vita slices Of green pepper and
pour French dressing on top.
Place small mound of spinach In
the center Of plate Of lettuce leaves.
then arrange canned sardineS, tlnaflsh
or salmon On the salad, also lemon cut
ia fancy shapes and clrlg Of celery.
Drain the liquid from hall a can of
peas, add one pint Of dnely-cut celery,
one capfui Of blanched an1 broken Eng
IiSl1 walnut meats and one cupful of
tart oranges cut into small pieces. Toss
together lightly and garnigh with ten
der white celery leaves and mayonnaise
Set ia q cool place until wanted.
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either fresh or canned: stuff them with
grated pineapple. rnarsi1nalIowg cut up
and nuts. Put q teaspoonflii Of dress
ing made from st1n whipped cream and
naay0nnalse On top Of each peach. Gar
nssi1 with cherries.
Sandwiches for Outings.
Some good fish sandwich filings are
faxed cooked FISH mixed with mayon-
Taise, hnnan had6ie mixed with hard
boiled eggs. salmon mixed with nayon-
IstSe and shredded lettuce, salmon with
= little h0FseradaEh sauce, and crab
meat with little tomato sauce Smoked
salmon. pounded ghrimps. tunafiKa or
lobster may be combined with hard
boiled eggs. lettuce and rnayonnaise.
Beef sandwiches are improved II
cooked meat is passed through a
sa1neer. but not too fine, and If chopped
Gayoglngs are added In addition to the
usual seaSonsngs such as minced onion,
RheTEin or other pickles, some we'll
1Eaade hoFseradlsh sauce. some fresh to-
8na10 pulp, some cooked minced carrot
or some finely shredded fresh cucumber
Cream cheese can be- used with a dust
Ing of sugar. then placed between layers
u Dattered brown bread. Or cream
cheese can De used with red curFanl
jelly R shredded pineapple
Bananas are good standby for
sweet sandwiches, They may be
mashed with strawberry jam and a
little whipped cream, or mashed and
used with q layer Of whipped cream
and then minced Walsufe scattered
over. fsteWec pruneg well mashed and
with either little lemon juice or come
cream stirred In. are good Honey and
minced nuts, chopped dates aud nuts.
grated chocolate and whipped cream
and chopped preserved ginger and
whipped cream are all good filings,
Sweets that carry well on an outing
ere lzanana& ano coffee orange lemon.