About fifteen minutes before the chicken salad is to be sent to the table, drain the celery, mix it thoroughly with the chicken, and then pour the dressing over it. Stir it well.
Cold veal or turkey is very good dressed in this way.
This receipt may be relied on as being particularly nice. No. 2 is not quite so rich.
CHICKEN SALAD, No. 2.
131. One pair of chickens,
Eight eggs,
Half a pint of oil,
One gill of vinegar,
Mustard, pepper, and salt to the taste,
Six heads of celery.
Boil the chickens in water with a little salt When cold cut the meat in small pieces about a quarter of an inch square; cut the celery in small pieces and lay it in water; boil the eggs twenty minutes, take out the yelks, mash them fine with the oil, add the vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper. Drain the celery, mix it with the chicken, and stir the mixture of egg, vinegar, oil, &c., well through the chicken and celery.
[VEGETABLES.]
All vegetables are better to be freshly gathered, when left to stand long, they lose much of their flavor.