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of boiled carrots and hard boiled whites of eggs are also formed into stars and
other figures by an iron. Then cut celery and mix it all with olive oil,
vinegar, salt and pepper. Used mostly for garnishing with.
Italian salad.
Boil in equal quantities, carrots, turnips, potatoes and red beets in salted
water. Then let the water and the substance cool; now cut it in slices of even
form and equal size. Add olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Serve the salad
within a circle made of pastry dough.
Potato salad.
Pare 6 or 8 large potatoes and boil till done, and slice thin while hot; peel
and cut up a white onion into small bits and mix with the potatoes; cut up some
breakfast bacon into small bits, sufficient to fill a tea cup, and fry a light
brown; remove the meat, and into the grease stir 3 tablespoons vinegar, making a
sour gravy, which with the bacon pour over the potatoes and onion; mix lightly.
To be eaten while hot.
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