ich the beaten white of
egg has been added and which has been thinned with vinegar.
Red
Scoop out the inside of tomatoes. Save the slice removed from the top
for a cover and replace it on the tomato after filling it with a mixture
of celery and nut meats, mixed with mayonnaise. Place each tomato on a
white leaf of lettuce.
Pink
Strain tomato juice and mix it with equal quantity of white stock--veal
or chicken. Thicken sufficiently with gelatin and harden in molds. Serve
on white lettuce leaves, with mayonnaise that has been colored with a
little cranberry juice.
Orange Salad
Make mayonnaise with much egg yolk in proportion to other ingredients,
and thin with cider vinegar. Dice tender carrots and arrange on lettuce
leaves, dressing with orange mayonnaise.
Animals feed, Men eat, but only intelligent Men
know what to eat. Brillat Savarin.
Tomato Aspic
In Tomato Aspic--Tomato jellies with sardines should be made in ample
time to harden on ice. The aspic referred to is ordinary gelatin mixed
with soup stock instead of plain water. Remove the skin from sardines,
then split them open and take out the backbone and cut them into narrow
strips.
Mix together in equal quantities some stiff mayonnaise sauce and cool,
but liquid, aspic jelly then stir in some chopped capers and small
pieces of tomato, in the proportion of a dessertspoon of each to half a
pint of the mayonnaise and aspic mixture; and, lastly, add the sardines.
Have at hand some small tomato molds which have been rather thickly
lined with tomato aspic, fill them with the sardine mixture and leave on
ice until the jellies can be unmolded; serve each on a small leaf of
lettuce, and surround with a salad of water-cress and sliced tomatoes.
Suffrage Salad Dressing
Yolks of 2 eggs
3 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of tarragon vinegar
1 pinch of salt
Beat well; cook in double boiler. When cold and ready to serve, fold in
1/2 pint of whipped cream.
Cucumber Aspic
Four large cucumbers, one small onion, half a box of gelatine soaked in
half a cup of cold water, salt and white pepper to taste. Peel the
cucumbers, cut into thick slices and place, with the sliced onion, over
the fire with a scant quart of water. Simmer for an hour, stir in the
gelatine and, when this is dissolved, season the jelly, strain it and
set aside to cool. It may be formed int
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