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before this stage of the process, because the salt and pepper would coagulate
the albumen of the eggs, and you could not get the dressing smooth. Two
tablespoonfuls of vinegar added gradually.
The Mayonnaise should be the thickness of thick cream when finished, but if it
looks like curdling when mixing it, set in the ice-box or in a cold place for
about forty minutes or an hour, then mix it again. It is a good idea to place it
in a pan of cracked ice while mixing.
For lobster salad, use the coral, mashed and pressed through a sieve, then add
to the above.
Salad dressing should be kept in a separate bowl in a cold place, and not mixed
with the salad until the moment it is to be served, or it may lose its crispness
and freshness.
DRESSING FOR COLD SLAW. (Cabbage Salad.)
Beat up two eggs, with two tablespoonfuls of sugar add a piece of butter the
size of half an egg, a teaspoonful of mustard, a little pepper, and lastly a
teacup of vinegar. Put all these ingredients into a dish over the fire, and cook
like a soft custard. Some think it improved by adding half a cupful of thick
sweet cream to this dressing; in that case use less vinegar. Either way is very
fine.
SALAD CREAM DRESSING. No. 1.
One cup fresh cream, one spoonful fine flour, the whites of two eggs beaten
stiff, three spoonfuls of vinegar, two spoonfuls of salad oil or soft butter,
two spoonfuls of powdered sugar, one teaspoonful salt, one half teaspoonful
pepper, one teaspoonful of made mustard. Heat cream almost to boiling; stir in
the flour, previously wet with cold milk; boil two minutes, stirring all the
time; add sugar and take from fire. When half cold, beat in whipped whites of
egg; set aside to cool. When quite cold, whip in the oil or butter, pepper,
mustard and salt; if the salad is ready, add vinegar, and pour at once over it.
CREAM DRESSING. No. 2.
Two tablespoonfuls of whipped sweet cream, two of sugar, and flour of vinegar;
beat well and pour over the cabbage, previously cut very fine and seasoned with
salt.
FRENCH SALAD DRESSING.
Mix one saltspoon of pepper with one of salt; add three tablespoonfuls of olive
oil, and one even tablespoonful of onion, scraped fine; then one tablespoonful
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