CRISP SALADS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 18

CRISP SALADS.

The housewife without an ice-box has to use ingenuity .'.o keep lettuces crisp and fresh on a hot or muggy clay. When the salad is bought it is best placed, in a deep receptacle, such as a pail, covered up and placed in a dark, cool place. If the lettuce is to be kept for a day, it should be carefully washed and the outside leaves removed, then placed in a covered receptacle, such as a casserole, or in a colander, and covered with an earthenware cover. It should not bo left soaking in water. Some people wash it and knot it loosely in a clean teacloth, hanging it in a current of air and keeping tho cloth damp with a sprinkler as it dries. Of course keeping salad stuffs crisp is a ; jvery simple matter, if one possesses an ice-box. The lettuce is then carefully gashed, prepared for table, and loosely ■iU'-Lf- in a clean cloth. This is placed •C ;2.Bht on the ice, and lettuce can be kept jvay 51 condition for some days in this