Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1912 — FINE CHICKEN SALAD [ARTICLE]

FINE CHICKEN SALAD

SUBJECT THAT WILL MAKE WOMAN DROP EVERYTHING ELSE. New Combination Makes Most Talkative Woman Dumb Until She Tastes It—Here Is One That la Worth Trying, Women will turn eagerly from • magnificent display of spring millinery, from a bargain counter filled with real bargains, or leave a discussion on Browning unfinished to compare notes and tell their experiences with chicken salad. Before a new chicken salad combination the most talkative woman becomes dumb until it is served and then her tongue runs faster than ever. Far be it from me to essay to give a recipe for a perfect salad, still I courageously offer the following and say that it suits many: Dice enough chiqifen meat to fill a pint cup, do not use the meat grinder for cutting the meat, it makes it too fine; use the kitchen scissors and have the dices of uniform size, when cut sprinkle with the juice of a lemon or with not too sharp vinegar, set aside while you prepare as much celery as you have chicken; the celery must be cut finer than the chicken and should be salted lighted and then mixed in with the cold meat. Stand these in the refrigerator to chill. Make a mayonnaise dressing or a boiled salad dressing and soften It with whipped cream, as a chicken salad must be mild and the taste of the chicken predominate. The chicken and celery may be mixed with the mayonnaise and served on lettuce but a newer, prettier way is to sprinkle olive oil or salad oil over the mixture in the proportion of half as much oil as you have used vinegar, and heap the mixture In Individual salad dishes with cress or lettuce beneath and then put in a heaping tablespoon of the stiff, rich looking dressing. A brilliant pimento or two or any other embellishment may be added. Onion is never used in chicken salad but sometimes the tiny spring onions are used as a garnish. Hardboiled eggs have gone out of fashion < for trimming salads and for this let us be truly thankful!—Henrietta. D. Grauei, Domestic Science Lecturer.