SALAD, DID YOU SAY?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19800, 18 November 1919, Page 9

SALAD, DID YOU SAY?

Tho bowl contained a heap of linely sin eel dec! and wilted lettuce. On it lav dried up eircios ot peeled cncuniOer. At tile bottom ot the bowl was some water, and the waitress supplied uih with a botlle ot some preparation which tasted, I should imagine, like furniture polish. .Next day I lunched elsewhere, and again asked lor salad. Aloro despond-ent-looking shredded lettuce, some watercress, and slices ol beetroot, all drenched with strong-lasting vinegar and a lilllo oil ot interior quality. . Wl| y i« it that so few English'cooks nt restaurants or in private houses know how to make a- saladf Try this method;-Jf you have not a garden and cannot obtain absolutely trosh salad material, keep tin; lettuce, watercress or encumber with the stalk m water. Thus it will keep for a. day or so fresh and crisp. Wash tho green sahul thoroughly in cold water, and in the ease of _ lettneo. lour tho leaves apart, allowing about a quarter of a lettneo to each person, or when the lettuce is \erv small a, hall- On no account cut-it with a knife. lo dry it, and ii should he free of afl water, place it in a clean towel and swing it quickly round. This dries without crushing the salad, ff euenmbor is used, do not peel it. Now lie sure that yon have pcrfeclly good oil 0 f jj u , best quality. If you cannot- have, that, r-at the salad without dressing. A]lowone tablospoonfnl or more of nj| ( 0 nllo dessertspoonful of vinegar, according to taste, a vnnst-ardspoonfnl of made nuistard, salt, freshly ground black pepper a pinch of sugar. Alix well. Ilnb the ealad bowl with a cut onion or clove of garlic, place the salad in it. add the dressing, mix well and serve at once, There should he just enough dressing to coat Ihe salad, and (lie sal,ad must be prepared only just; when it j s neededA little green tarragon or a (Imp or two of larragon vinegar may lie added il liked or to give variety.-- !>.{'.f>, m Iho “Daily Mail.”