Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — BETTER THAN HOT VEGETABLE [ARTICLE]

BETTER THAN HOT VEGETABLE

Salads, Easily Made and Inexpensive, Should Have Place on Table in Summer. It is not necessary to have expensive asparagus tips or pimentos to make the most delicious salad. The humble string bean, carrot, turnip, beet and lima bean offer most delightful possibilities. Finely shredded cabbage with lima beans and grated carcarrot is most attractive. Beets and string beans combine well, and to fhose who like to make salads, even the smallest scraps of left-over can be utilized to advantage. So then, in your summer cooking, substitute the salad for the hot, steaming vegetable. It will save time and bother because the» you can boil it in the early coolness of the day, lay in the icebox, and have all prepared for night without needing to bother Just at supper-time. Wash and clean the lettuce early in the day, wrap in a bag of paper toweling or square of clean cheesecloth and put it in the icebox, and your salad is practically done. A summer supper in some form of aspic; meat loaf, or even a hot meat dish, together with a vegetable salad dressed with plenty of olive oil, fruit and bread and butter is ideal.