Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1911 — VIRGINIA CHICKEN SALAD [ARTICLE]

VIRGINIA CHICKEN SALAD

Correct Recipe for Dish That Is Popular at Christmas and on Special Occasions. Here Is the correct recipe for the Genuine Virginia chicken salad. It is served at Christmas and oq other special occasions: For making the dressing for this salad the chicken oil, skimmed from the water in which the chickens are boiled, Is used in place of the olive oil. The chickens, which must be plump, are simmered tender in lightly salted water. When cold the skin and bones are removed and the meat cut, not chopped, into small bits. Mix with double the quantity of celery cut from tender, well-bleached stalks that have been erisped in Ice water, then dried In a clean towel, minced and added to the mixture, which is then dresesd with a good salad dressing, preferably mayonnaise, and set on the Ice to chill and ripen.