Excelsior Lobster Salad with Cream Dressing+

1 fine lobster, boiled and when cold picked to pieces, or two small ones. 1 cup of best salad oil.

1/2 cup sweet cream, whipped light to a cupful of froth. 1 lemon - the juice strained. 1 teaspoonful mustard wet up with vinegar. 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar. 1 teaspoonful salt.

A pinch of cayenne pepper. 4 tablespoonfuls vinegar. Beaten yolks of two eggs.

Beat eggs, sugar, salt, mustard, and pepper until light; then, and very gradually, the oil. When the mixture is quite thick, whip in the lemon. Beat five minutes before putting in the vinegar. Just before the salad goes to table add half the whipped cream to this dressing and stir well into the lobster. Line the salad-bowl with lettuce-leaves ; put in the seasoned meat and cover with the rest of the whipped cream.

This salad deserves its name.

Chicken Salad+

The white meat of a cold boiled or roasted chicken (or turkey). Three-quarters the same bulk of chopped celery.

2 hard-boiled eggs.

1 raw egg, well beaten. 1 teaspoonful of salt. 1 " pepper.

1 " made mustard.

3 " salad oil.

2 " white sugar. 1/2 teacupful of vinegar.

Mince the meat well, removing every scrap of fat, gristle, and skin; cut the celery into bits half an inch long, or less, mix them, and set aside in a cold place while you prepare the dressing.

Rub the yolks of the eggs to a fine powder, add the salt, pepper, and sugar, then the oil, grinding hard, and putting in but a few drops at a time. The mustard comes next, and let all stand together while you whip the raw egg to a froth. Beat this into the dressing, and pour in the vinegar spoonful by spoonful, whipping the dressing well as you do it. Sprinkle a little dry salt over the meat and celery; toss it up lightly with a silver fork; pour the dressing over it, tossing and mixing until the bottom of the mass is as well saturated as the top; turn into the salad-bowl, and garnish with white of eggs (boiled) cut into rings or flowers, and sprigs of bleached celery-tops.

If you cannot get celery, substitute crisp white cabbage, and use celery vinegar in the dressing. You can also, in this case, chop some green pickles, gherkins, mangoes, or cucumbers, and stir in.

Turkey makes even better salad than chicken.

You can make soup of the liquor in which the fowl is cooked, since it need not be boiled in a cloth.

Lettuce Salad+

Two or three heads white lettuce.

2 hard-boiled eggs.

2 teaspoonfuls salad oil.

1/2 " salt.

1 " white sugar.

1/2 " made mustard.

1 " pepper.

4 tablespoonfuls vinegar.

Rub the yolks to a powder, add sugar, pepper, salt, mustard, and oil. Let it stand five minutes, and beat in the vinegar. Cut the lettuce up with a knife and fork, - a chopper would bruise it, - put into a bowl, add the dressing, and mix by tossing with a silver fork.

Or, You can dress on the table with oil and vinegar only, pulling the heart of the lettuce out with your fingers, and seasoning to taste.