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of butter, sugar, and a small table-spoon of mustard mixed smooth; boil, add the
well-beaten yolks of two eggs, stirring carefully as for float until it thickens
to the consistency of starch, then set in a cool place or on ice, and when cold
pour over salad and mix well--Mrs. S. Watson, Upper Sandusky.
HERRING SALAD.
Soak over night three Holland herrings cut in very small pieces; cook and peel
eight medium potatoes and when cold chop with two small cooked red beets, two
onions, a few sour apples, some roasted veal, and three hard-boiled eggs; mix
with a sauce of sweet oil, vinegar, stock, pepper and mustard to taste. A
table-spoon of thick sour cream improves the sauce, which should stand over
night in an earthen dish.--Mrs. H. C. Mahncke.
LOBSTER SALAD.
Boil the lobster, five minutes for every pound, in water to which have been
added, for a five-pound one, four sprigs of parsley, two of thyme, two cloves,
four onions cut in slices, salt, pepper, and a tea-spoon vinegar; leave the
lobster in it till cold, then take off and drain it. Chop the lobster fine after
removing it from the shell, and add two heads of minced lettuce, half a cup of
melted butter, two table-spoons mustard, salt and pepper to taste. Place in a
dish, and over all pour a half pint of vinegar, into which six well-beaten eggs
have been stirred and heated till it is thick. This should be cold when it is
put on the lobster.
POTATO SALAD.
Chop cold boiled potatoes fine with enough raw onions to season nicely; make a
dressing as for lettuce salad, and pour over it.
SALMON SALAD.
Set a can of salmon in a kettle of boiling water, let boil twenty minutes, take
out of the can and put in a deep dish, pour off the juice or oil, put a few
cloves in and around it, sprinkle salt and pepper over, cover with cold vinegar,
and let it stand a day, take it from the vinegar and lay it on a platter.
Prepare a dressing as follows: Beat the yolks of two raw eggs with the yolks of
two eggs boiled hard and mashed fine as possible; add gradually a table-spoon
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