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Berkshire Salad in Boxes

Marinate one cup cold boiled fowl cut into dice and one cup cooked French chestnuts broken in pieces with French Dressing.

Marinate one cup cold boiled fowl cut into dice and one cup cooked French chestnuts broken in pieces with French Dressing. Add one grated red pepper from which seeds have been removed, one cup celery cut into small pieces, and Mayonnaise to moisten. Trim crackers (four inches 346long by one inch wide, slightly salted) at ends, using a sharp knife; arrange on plate in form of box, keep in place with red ribbon one-half inch wide, and fasten at one corner by tying ribbon in a bow. Garnish opposite corner with a sprig of holly berries. Line box with lettuce leaves, put in a spoonful of salad, and mask with Mayonnaise. Any colored ribbon may be used, and flowers substituted for berries.

Ingredients

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  • French dressing
  • mayonnaise
  • slightly salted, 4 inches long by 1 inch wide crackers
  • 0.5 inch wide red ribbon
  • lettuce

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Sharp knife For trimming crackers
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Salad bowl or serving plate

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Marinate one cup cold boiled fowl cut into dice and one cup cooked French chestnuts broken in pieces with French Dressing.

  2. 2

    Add one grated red pepper from which seeds have been removed, one cup celery cut into small pieces, and Mayonnaise to moisten.

  3. 3

    Trim crackers (four inches 346long by one inch wide, slightly salted) at ends, using a sharp knife; arrange on plate in form of box, keep in place with red ribbon one-half inch wide, and fasten at one corner by tying ribbon in a bow.

  4. 4

    Garnish opposite corner with a sprig of holly berries.

  5. 5

    Line box with lettuce leaves, put in a spoonful of salad, and mask with Mayonnaise.

  6. 6

    Any colored ribbon may be used, and flowers substituted for berries.

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