lended together mix the sauce with the herring and other
ingredients and let it be ready 2 hours before serving; shortly
before serving put the salad into a dish and garnish with small
girkins, beets cut into fancy shapes, salted olives, hard boiled
eggs and capers or mixed pickles.

900. +Salad a L'italienne.+-- Soak 6 Dutch herrings for 12 hours in
cold water; then take them out, remove the skins and bones and cut
the meat into small long strips a little wider than a straw and 3/4
inch in length; also cut 1 pound cold boiled beef tonge, 1 pound
cold roasted veal, 3 greening apples and 6 small pickles; after the
ingredients are all cut the same way mix them well together and mix
them with a fine mayonaise; set the salad on ice for several hours;
when ready to serve put the salad into a dish and garnish with
finely chopped hard boiled eggs and salted olives; sprinkle over a
few capers and serve.

901. +Chicken Salad.+-- Select a plump 1-year old chicken for this;
singe and draw it, wash in cold water and put the chicken in a
kettle; cover with boiling water, add 1/2 tablespoonful salt and 2
onions; cover and boil slowly till tender; when done remove the
kettle from the fire and let the chicken remain in the broth till
cold; then take it out, remove the skin and bones and cut the meat
into small pieces; take the white part of 1 nice bunch celery and
cut it very fine; add it to the finely cut chicken, pour over
Mayonaise No. 1 and set it on ice for 2 hours before serving; when
ready to serve put the salad into a salad dish and garnish with the
small celery tops, which should lay for 1 hour in ice water; stick
them all around in the salad and sprinkle 1/2 cup capers all over the
salad. Some freshly grated cocoanut sprinkled over this salad is a
great improvement; or garnish to taste.

902. +How to Boil Lobster.+-- Select a good sized lobster, put it
into a kettle of boiling water, head first, add a small handful salt
and boil till the lobster has attained a bright red color, which
will take from 20 to 30 minutes; when done take the lobster out and
plunge it into cold water; let it lay in the cold water for 5
minutes; then take it out and when cold put the lobster away in a
cool place till wanted.

903. +Lobster Salad.+-- Split open the body and tail of a boiled
lobster and crack the claws; pick out all the meat and cut it into
pieces about 3/4 inch in size; put the meat into a salad dish and pour
over Mayonaise No. 1