Superior Salads and Dressings

CHILLED LEAFY VEGETABLES so crisp that they crackle, tossed with your favorite dressing, make a health-brimming green salad neither your husband nor men guests will shim. You know all the talk about men not liking salads is a myth.

Many of the favorite salad recipes sent to us come from country kitchens. Since women plan meals to please their husbands and families, the increasing flow of salad recipes to our food editors indicates progress in good nutrition and taste-changing.

The recipes in this chapter divide into four groups: fruit, vegetable, molded (gelatin) and substantial salads. With them we give you excitingly different salad dressings. Good salad-makers depend on a variety of dressings to provide distinction and superior flavors to their salads.