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Boiled Salad Dressing

3 eggs, 3 tablespoons dry mustard, 1 teacup of oil or cream, 1/2 cup vinegar, salt to taste. Mix eggs and mustard to a cream, then add oil drop by drop, vinegar drop by drop, salt to taste. Put on stove and stir all the time, and let it scarcely come to a boil. When cold, bottle and keep in a cold place.

By beating all the ingredients well together with an egg-beater it is as creamy as when oil is added drop by drop.

Dressing for Cold Slaw

Yolks of 1 or 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 of mustard, butter size of an egg. Cook like custard.

Clayton’s Celebrated Salad Dressing

Take 3 tablespoonfuls of mustard, mixed quite stiff. Pour on this slowly 1/4 of a pint of best olive oil, stirring rapidly till thick. Then add 3 eggs, and after mixing slightly pour in slowly the remaining 3/4 of a pint of oil, stirring rapidly till the mixture forms a thick batter. Next take 1 teacup of best wine vinegar and juice of 1 lemon, a small teaspoonful of salt and 1 of white sugar. Stir until the ingredients are well mixed. When bottled and tightly corked, this will remain good for months.

Salad Dressing

1/2 salt spoon pepper, 1 of salt, 1 teaspoonful mixed mustard, 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons of best olive oil, 3 tablespoons cream, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 hard-boiled egg.

Tomato Salad

Scald and peel tomatoes and cut holes in the top of each. Make a rich salad dressing, into which stir some cold peas, beans and beets, finely chopped. Stuff the tomatoes with this, and pour dressing over. Garnish the dish with fine lettuce leaves.