by degrees a teaspoonful of salt, and the same
quantity of mustard: mix till smooth, and then incorporate with the
other ingredients about three tablespoonfuls of vinegar.

Pour this sauce down the side of the salad bowl, but do not stir up
the salad till wanted to be eaten. Garnish the top of the salad with
the white of the eggs, cut in slices; or these may be arranged in such
manner as to be ornamental on the table. Some persons may fancy they
are able to prepare a salad without previous instruction, but, like
everything else, a little knowledge in this case is not thrown away.

1267. French Mode of Dressing Salad.

Fill the salad bowl with lettuce and small salading, taking care not
to cut up the lettuce into too small strips. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper, and, if liked, drop some mustard, mixed thin, over the salad,
and strew a little moist sugar over it. Then pour over the whole three
tablespoonfuls of good salad oil and one of Orleans vinegar, and turn
over the lettuce lightly with a salad spoon and fork, that every
portion of it may be brought into contact with the mixture. This mode
of preparing a salad is far more expeditious than the ordinary way.

1268. Salad Mixture in Verse.

Two large potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve,
Unwonted softness to the salad give;
Of mordant mustard add a single spoon--
Distrust the condiment which bites so soon;
But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault
To add a double quantity of salt;
Three times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown,
And once with vinegar procured from town.
True flavour needs it, and your poet begs
The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs;
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole;
And lastly, on the favoured compound toss
A magic teaspoon of anchovy sauce;
Then, though green turtle fail, though venison's tough,
And ham and turkey be not boiled enough
Serenely full, the epicure may say,--
"Fate cannot harm me--I have dined today."

1269. Apple Puddings.

One pound of flour, six ounces of very finely minced beef suet; roll
thin, and fill with one pound and a quarter of boiling apples; add the
grated rind and strained juice of a small lemon, tie it in a cloth;
boil for one hour and twenty minutes, or longer. A small slice of
fresh butter stirred into it