C6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8,1981
4% Home On The Range
Summer salads are an inside/outside treat
Summer is a time for mside
outside toods those that go well
either on the indoor dinner table or
in the outdoor picnic basket. Some
perennial favorites are old
fashioned egg salad, potato salad,
macaroni salad, and gelatin
salads.
All these salads are really quick
to tix and can be prepared ahead
and kept refrigerated.
Old Fashioned
Egg Salad
1/4 c. mayonnaise
11. tlaked, dried onion
1/2 c. finely chopped celery
2 T. lemon juice
1/21 salt
6 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
4 lettuce leaves
Blend together mayonnaise,
lemon juice, onion, salt and pep
per. Reserve 4 slices from center
ot 1 egg tor garnish Chop
remaining eggs. Stir copped eggs
and celery into mayonnaise
mixture until moistened
throughout. Cover and refrigerate
until ready to serve. For each
serving, spoon about 1/2 c. egg
salad onto a lettuce leaf. Garnish
with reserved egg slices.
Mustard Potato Salad
Stir the following ingredients
into the old fashioned egg salad
I pound potatoes, cooked peeled
and diced
1/2 c. mayonnaise
11. prepared mustard
1/21. flaked onion
1/41. salt
Stir well and serve.
Cook’s
Question
Comer
QUESTION - Does anyone have some good recipes to make
horse radish and a way to keep it from getting dark?
L.W. Ziegler, Harleysville
QUESTION - I’ve heard that whey (liquid remaining from
making cheese) is very healthy for you. I would like some recipes
or uses for it. Also I enjoy making my own noodles (both egg and
spinach), but what would be the best long term storage method 7
v Wanda Zeigler, Dillsburg
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ANSWER - Rose Hoover of Dallas has supplied us with an
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Home on the Range section.
August
Summer Salads
Pears, Plums and Zucchini
Tomato Tempters
Egg Specials
15
22
29
September
5
Soups and Stews
Fresh vegetables are in abundance this time of year - what
better time to make a delicious, fresh salad? But don’t limit
your selection of salad ingredients to vegetables, remember
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Recipe Topics
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Pineapple Cheese Salad
1 box 13 oz. ) lime gelatin
1 c. cottage cheese
1 c. evaporated milk
1/2 c. salad dressing
1/4 c. celery diced
1 c. boiling water to dissolve
gelatin
1 can crushed pineapple
Dissolve gelatin in hot water
Cool. Mix the rest ot the
ingredients Put in mold, chill, and
serve
Strawberry Salad
2-S oz. boxes strawberry gelatin
2 c. boiling water
Iboz trozenstiawbernes
11/2 c drained crushed pineapple
2 bananas diced
1 e. sour cream
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
Put trozen strawberries in gelatin
and dissolve Add pineapple and
bananas Put halt ot the mixture in
a glass baking dish (long pan) cool
until tirm Spread sour ci earn over
gelatin and put the lest ot the
gelatin ot top Ketudgeiate
Mrs. John Gates
New Enterprise
Chet’s Salad
1 head chicoiy (ult as desued)
1 bunch wateiciess (cut as
desued)
1/4 lb. boiled ham
1/4 lb swiss cheese
d tomatoes (cut in wedges;
a lai ge chopped slutted olives
salt and peppei lu taste
Pleach di e&sing
Ai range above ingiedienls in
salad bowl Add desued amount ot
1 lench di cssing and loss lightly
that eggs and noodles taste great too. Clockwise is macaroni
salad, old fashioned egg salad and mustard potato salad.
Tomato Salad
4 large tomatoes
2 onions
pepper and salt to taste
lettuce
Slice sun ripened tomatoes in
thick pieces and granish with
thickly sliced onions. Serve on
chilled lettuce, using salt, lots ot
treshly ground pepper and no
dressing. Serves 4
Mrs. Charles Biehl
Mertztown
Make Ahead Toss Salad
1 med. head toi n lettuce
1 c. torn curly endive
2 c. torn romaine lettuce
10 1' mayonnaise
1 large onion sliced thinly
1 1/2 c. cooked or canned peas
( drained)
12 slices crisp bacon
Begin with the salad greens
layer a third ot each in a tlat bowl
or plastic container. Add each
ingiedient except the mayonnaise.
On top ot each layer (you’ll have
three), put dots ot mayonnaise,
spi inkle with sugar (about It),
dash with salt (about 1/4 1. 1 and
peppei. Do not toss Cover, chill at
lease 2 houis oi overnight I’oss
just betoie seiving Ciispy and
good
Macaroni Salad
Stir the tollowing ingredients
into the old fashioned egg salad.
1 pkg elbow macaroni, cooked and
drained
1/2 c. chopped green peppdr
1/2 c mayonnaise
1 jai chopped pmuento, drained
Fresh Mushroom Salad
1 lb. tresh mushrooms
b green onions
2 c. water
2 11 lemon juice
1/2 c. sour cream
1/41. sugar
11. salt
dash white pepper
Wash and slice mushrooms.
Mince onion. Combine water and
lemon juice in a 2 quart saucepan,
and bring to a boil. Add
mushrooms, cover and simmer tor
6 minutes. Dram on paper towels
until cool In a small bowl, com
bine onions, sour cream, sugar,
salt and pepper mix well. Add
mushi 001ns and mix well. Serve
immediately on lettuce.
Barbara Bussell
Bine Bush, New York
Green Bean Salad
I qt. green beans
1 lb can navy beans
1 c. diced celery
3/4 c. coarsely diced lunch meat
2 I’. chopped pimento, optional
3 choppped hard-cooked eggs
1/4 c. mayonnaise
2 1’ chopped green pepper, op
tional
1/41 salt
dash ot pepper
1/2 c chopped sweet pickles
1 small grated onion
It. mustaid
Stu all ingredients together. Add
more mayonnaise it necessary.
Serve cold
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Sue Wenger
Manheun