17 Potato Salad
Slice cold boiled potatoes. Rub a bowl with garlic; put in the potatoes;
add half a pint of finely chopped small onions, a tablespoonful of
finely chopped parsley, a teaspoonful each of salt and pepper. Mix a
teacupful of chicken broth, four tablespoonfuls each of oil and vinegar,
and toss up lightly with the potatoes, so as to break them as little as
possible. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with slices of beets cut
in shapes or hard boiled eggs sliced.
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16 Mutton Custard
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