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Why it works: Olive and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,087 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Salads and Salad Dressings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. “Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply — fruits and vegetables.”

  2. Salads may be prepared of all kinds of poultry, game, meat, flsh, oysters, lobsters, eggs, as well as of all kinds of greens, of which, changing with the' season, the choice must be left to the judgment, fancy and discretion of the mistress of the house:

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  4. SLADE’S and PURE are synonymous words.

  5. The same thing is true of the dressings to be used on salads — the judgment of the housewife must be exercised to suit the taste of her own household; some like a sharp, acid flavoring, some want dressing with oil, others without oil; for most palates nothing will be found more pleasing than Slade’s Salad Cream, which can be purchased at the grocer’s -all ready for use ; the dressing is prepared from the purest, freshest and most wholesome ingredients and is free from all preservatives and unhealthful substances.

  6. French dressing is used for green vegetables, for fruits and nuts, and to marinate cooked vegetables, or fish or meat for salads. To marinate means to mix thoroughly with the ingredients of the salad and allowing the dress- ing to remain until the ingredients are thoroughly sea- soned with it; the salad should then be carefully drained so that the salad cream or mayonnaise may not be diluted with the liquid.

  7. Slade’s Salad Cream or dressing is used for meat, fish, and some varieties of fruit and vegetables; sometimes alone and sometimes after some of the salad ingredients have been seasoned with French dressing.

  8. The green vegetables should be fresh, crisp and cold. Salad should be made just before it is needed, for it loses its freshness quickly.

  9. Cherry Salad. —

  10. Vi pint Maraschino % lb. candied cherries

  11. ^Blanch the filberts and put into the fresh cherries after taking out the stones. Mix all together with the follow- ing dressing. Serve in glasses with fancy crackers as a dessert.

  12. Fruit Salad Dressing. —

  13. Juice of two oranges 1 cup cream

  14. Juice of two lemons % cup sugar

  15. Beat the juice of fruit with eggs; add sugar and boil till clear. Whip the cream and stir thoroughly into the mixture after it has cooled. Set away to become thor- oughly chilled. — M. A. Davis, Worcester, Mass.

  16. Halibut Salad. — Steam a slice of halibut, first well rubbed over with salt, until the flesh easily separates from the bone; remove skin and bone and with a fork separate it into flakes into attractive pieces, not mincing it too fine to have a leftover appearance, add a seasoning of salt, and French Dressing to which has been added a few gratings of raw onion. When ready to serve pour off what French

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  18. Physicians, Chemists, Cooks and Housekeepers all testify to the purity, wholesomeness and efficient qualities of Slade’s Baking Powder.

  19. Dressing has not been absorbed and arrange in a salad dish with alternate layers of fish, cold boiled peas, cucumbers cut in cubes and sprinkled with salt and Slade's Salad Cream. Garnish with heart leaves of lettuce and serve with any kind of sweet pickle or with spiced gooseberry. — Katherine Parsons, Lynn, Mass.

  20. French Dressing. —

  21. Vi teaspoonful salt 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar

  22. Vi, teaspoonful Slade's Slade's Extract of Onion

  23. Pepper to taste

  24. 4 tablespoonfuls olive oil

  25. Mix all together. — Katherine Parsons, Lynn, Mass.

  26. Slade’s Salad Cream will be found to be even better than home-made. It is made of pure and wholesome in- gredients and will be found so pleasing to the taste that once tasted you will want Slade’s thereafter.

  27. Green Pea Salad. —

  28. 1 quart green peas 2 cucumbers cut in

  29. small pieces

  30. Mix peas, walnut meat and four tablespoons of Slade's Salad Cream together very thoroughly. Serve on lettuce, cover with Slade’s Salad Cream and garnish with cucum- ber cubes. — Miss Bertha M. Babb, Walker Manual Train- ing School, Portland, Maine.

  31. Mock Lobster Salad. —

  32. Slade’s Salad Cream

  33. Mix the halibut, radishes and eggs thoroughly, then add enough of Slade’s Salad Cream to moisten, arrange on lettuce, cover with Slade’s Salad Cream and garnish with radish roses. — Miss Bertha M. Babb, Walker Manual Train- ing School, Portland, Maine.

  34. Pear and Nut Salad. — Beat the white of one egg slightly, add Vi tablespoon of lemon juice and Vi tablespoon water. Drain carefully canned pears. Take each one and dip into the white of egg, then roll in English walnut meats chopped fine. Serve on lettuce leaves with Slade’s Salad Cream. This is also good made with ripe uncooked Bart- lett pears. — Mrs. Mary L. Wade, Atlantic, Mass.

  35. The scientific proportions, the exactness and skill used in the preparation of Slade’s Salad Cream, ensures to con- sumers a better and more uniform salad dressing than they eould make at hornet

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  37. It Is worth much to know that your spices are pure — it costs only the effort of getting Slade’s.

  38. Potato Salad. —

  39. 2 cups boiled potatoes cut % cup celery cut fine in % inch cubes 1 small onion chopped

  40. Marinate with Slade’s Salad Cream. Arrange on crisp lettuce leaves and sprinkle with chopped meats. — Myrtie Ethelyn Robinson, Twentieth Century Cooking School.

  41. Poinsettla Salad.; — Peel small tomatoes and cut in eighths lengthwise, but do not separate the sections at one end, Open like flowers on a bed of lettuce. In the centre of each, pile a teaspoonful of cream cheese that has been forced through a coarse strainer.

  42. Serve with Slade’s Salad Cream or with French dress» ing to which has been added 1 teaspoon each of finely chopped green pepper, parsley and chives. — Alice Bradley* Cambridge, Mass.

  43. Spanish Salad. — Cut cream Cheese in half-inch cubes; cut four canned Spanish pimentos in half- inch squares; mix the pieces of cheese and pimentos together lightly and dispose on a bed of heart leaves of lettuce, nicely washed and dried. Beat half a. cup of double cream until firm throughout; add one-fourth a teaspoonful of salt and half a cup of Slade’s Salad Cream. Pour the cream mixture over the cheese and pimentos and decorate with figures cut from a pimento. — Mrs. Janet M. Hill, Boston.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1052Calories
51 gProtein
41 gFat
127 gCarbs

Counts 19 of 23 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 19 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Halibut100g cooked140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Fruitnot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Pimentonot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By D. & L. Slade Co. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Vinegar + olivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Lemon + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, egg, vinegar, olive, walnut, meat):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, egg, vinegar, olive, walnut, meat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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