Unusual Salads

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 10

Unusual Salads

MEW recipes for salads are always V of interest. A Swedish salad is delicious when served with roast duck, but is good with-, other meats. Take a sufficient number of young crisp lettuces, remove the hearts, and chop them finely. Mix them with two or three sliced bananas and a cupful of whipped cream, and pepper and salt to taste. Refill the lettuce shells with this mixture and areango on a salad dish.

With Chopped Mint. Remove the skins from the required number of bananas, and cut them in halves lengthwise. Place them on leaves of crisp lettuce, and sprinkle them with lemon juice. Cover with mayonnaise or other salad dressing, to which has been added some cnopped nuts.

Sprinkle with chopped mint, and servo with cold mutton.

A Pretty Dish. 'Take a salad bowl and into it shred about .loz. of the heart of a crisp lettuce well washed and dried. Use fingers for shredding. Add a grated apple, using a stainless non-rust grater, and put in a portion of the skin, but no coro.

Skin a largo tomato by dipping it in boiling hot water and cutting it in quarters, when the skin will come away easily. Add the quarters. Grate over the salad loz. of Brazil nuts. Squeeze over it half tho juico of a grape-fruit and grate in a soupeon only of tho skin. Mix tho salad well with horn servers. To garnish it add the rest of tho grapefruit scraped out into four little piles, and between thoso grate up a beetroot into four corresponding red piles. A little good Indian chutney in the centre gives tho final garnish and a relish.