" " 149
Chafing-Dish, Filler, etc. " " 153
Course at Formal Dinner served in Individual
Chafing-Dishes " " 157
Butter Balls with Utensils for Chafing-Dish " " 178
Moulded Halibut with Creamed Peas " " 178
Yorkshire Rabbit " " 186
Curried Eggs " " 186
Mushroom Cromeskies, ready for cooking " " 198
Prune Toast " " 198

PART I.

SALADS.

"_Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting
To spoil such a delicate picture by eating._"

INTRODUCTION.

At their savory dinner set
Herbs and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.
--_Milton._

Our taste for salads--and in their simplest form who is not fond of
salads?--is an inheritance from classic times and Eastern lands. In the
hot climates of the Orient, cucumbers and melons were classed among
earth's choicest productions; and a resort ever grateful in the heat of
the day was "a lodge in a garden of cucumbers."

At the Passover the Hebrews ate lettuce, camomile, dandelion and
mint,--the "bitter herbs" of the Paschal feast,--combined with oil and
vinegar. Of the Greeks, the rich were fond of the lettuces of Smyrna,
which appeared on their tables at the close of the repast. In this
respect the Romans, at first, imitated the Greeks, but later came to
serve lettuce with eggs as a first course and to excite the appetite.
The ancient physicians valued lettuce for its narcotic virtue, and, on
account of this property, Galen, the celebrated Greek physician, called
it "the philosopher's or wise man's herb."

The older historians make frequent mention of salad plants and salads.
In the biblical narrative Moses wrote: "And the children of Israel wept
again and said, We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely;
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlick."

In his second Eclogue, Virgil represents a rustic maid, Thestylis,
preparing for the reapers a salad called _moretum_. He wrote, also, a
poem bearing this title, in which he describes the composition and
preparation of the dish.

A modern authority says, "Salads refresh without exciti