=★ Apple and Pineapple Salad with Cream Dressing=
Prepare apples and pineapple, equal quantities, or ⅓ only of pineapple,
according to directions on p. 275. Just at serving time, combine
with cream dressing--sweet, and serve in dainty glasses or cups
(individual), each on a small plate with a doily and a cut flower or
leaf or a spray of some delicate vine. This is a sample of what may be
done with any of the followings combinations and many others:
Apple with orange or strawberries, red raspberries, canned cherries,
cherries and celery, or celery.
Banana with apple or strawberries, red raspberries, pineapple, orange
or celery.
Pineapple with orange, red raspberries, strawberries, cherries or
celery.
Orange with red raspberries, strawberries, cherries or celery.
Fresh ripe peaches, seeded sweet grapes with solid flesh, and sweet
apples are among the suitable fruits for salads.
The almond butter dressing is as desirable as the cream dressing.
Pear and apple or apple or pineapple alone with the almond dressing are
especially delightful. The whipped cream dressing may be used when more
convenient.
=★ Currant and Red Raspberry Salad=
1 pt. each red raspberries and very ripe currants, 1 or 2 teaspns.
of fine chopped tarragon, basil or sassafras leaves, with lemonade
dressing of 1½ tablespn. each of lemon juice and water and two
tablespns. of sugar. Serve in glasses or cups with suitable decoration.
The flavorings may be omitted.
Pineapple with either the currants or raspberries without the
flavorings is excellent. Orange and red raspberries; grape fruit
and strawberries; apple and strawberries; apple, grape fruit and
strawberries or orange; apple, banana and strawberries and other
combinations of juicy fruits will suggest themselves from the
preceding. When a sweeter fruit than currants is used the proportion of
sugar in the regular lemonade dressing is sufficient.
=★ Mint Fruit Salads=
Oranges or grape fruit or apples with shredded mint and lemonade
dressing (water omitted in first two) are the most delightfully
refreshing of salads.
=Nut and Banana Salad=
Roll small peeled bananas in any of the sweetened cream dressings,
then in chopped nuts. Serve on individual plates with a spoonful of
dressing, with orange points and candied cranberries or cherries, or
frosted currants for garnish.
=Apple and Cranberry Salad=
Grind ripe cranberries fine and mix with a liberal supply of one of
the sweetened cream dressings. Prepare apple also with the dressing
and place the two in high alternating diagonal rows on a platter with
lettuce border; or prepared apples may be placed on the platter and
spoonfuls of the cranberry dropped on top. Whole berries may dot the
lettuce border.
=Sweet Fruit and Cocoanut Salads=
Fresh grated cocoanut in center of dish, border of black or red
raspberries, blueberries, sliced or halved peaches or bananas, cream
dressing--sweet or whipped cream dressing. No lettuce.
=Oriental Salad=
Grape fruit and oranges--mayonnaise. The dressing sometimes tinted
delicately with pink and green or green only.
=Peach Salad=
Sprinkle shredded basil, tarragon or sassafras leaves over sliced or
halved pared peaches and cover with lemon juice and sugar. Garnish or
serve, with blanched almonds.
Or, serve peaches with cream dressing--sweet or whipped cream dressing
in cups, with nuts.
=Cooked Apple Salad=
Dry, fresh or dried apple sauce, or baked whole or quarters of apples
(all without sugar) cream dressing--sweet, nut, whipped sweet or sour
cream, French or mayonnaise dressing. Serve decorated to taste.
=Love Apple Salad=
Whole peeled tomatoes in nests of lettuce, or with some leaf or flower
garnish, with a cream, French or mayonnaise dressing.
Or, cut tomatoes into quarters or sixths from the blossom end just deep
enough for the pieces to spread apart without separating.
=Grape Fruit and Celery=
Equal quantities of grape fruit and fine sliced celery with mayonnaise
or improved mayonnaise dressing in grape fruit cups with edges cut in
deep points and rolled down. Some green garnish.
=Additional Combinations=
Apples--salad entrée dressing.
Apple and onion--roasted peanut, improved mayonnaise, French or whipped
sour cream dressing.
Apples and cucumbers--Dominion salad dressing.
Apples, celery and a few raisins--one of the sweet dressings, garnish
with blanched almonds.
Celery with apples or tomatoes or pineapple or apple and tomato, à la
string bean and celery salad.
Peach and tomato with or without basil or tarragon.
Sweet apples alone and in combinations--almond butter dressing.
Tomato and banana--some sweet dressing.
Grape Fruit--French dressing on lettuce.
Tomato and grape fruit--lemon juice and sugar, or orange French
dressing.
Red raspberries with currant juice.
Canned or fresh red raspberries--lemon juice or lemon juice and sugar.
Apples, celery and butternut meats--improved mayonnaise dressing.
Tomato and apple--honey French dressing.
Cumquots--Tom Thumb oranges, and Malaga grapes--fruit juice dressing.