Fish Salads.
of each section with shrimps, by lightly pressing the ends of the shrimps into the mayonnaise. Finish with a tuft of lettuce in the centre of the dish.
Spanish Salad.
In the centre of a flat serving-dish arrange a mound of endive. Peel tomatoes, divide into sections or cut in slices, and arrange these around the endive. Shell cold, hard-boiled eggs; cut in halves, crosswise, and in points; remove the yolks and pound to a paste with an equal amount of the flesh of lobster, shrimp, anchovies or salmon. With this paste, seasoned to taste with oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper, fill the cups fashioned from the whites of the eggs, and arrange them around the tomatoes. Strew chopped shallot and sweet pepper over the endive. Mix equal portions of oil and vinegar, add salt and pepper to taste, and pour over the salad. Serve at once.
Salmon Salad.
(For evening company, or fish course at a dinner party.)
Ingredients.
- Hard-boiled eggs.
- 1 teaspoonful of gelatine, softened in one tablespoonful of cold water.
- 1 pint of string beans or asparagus tips.
- 1 pint of cooked peas.
- French dressing.
- 2 slices of salmon, 2 inches thick.
- Jelly mayonnaise, or fancy butter.
- Capers.
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