CREAM CHEESE SALAD

Moisten a cream cheese with cream and beat to a froth.  Arrange in a mound shape on a dish and turn preserved gooseberries over it.  Serve with biscuits.

CREAM CHEESE SALAD WITH PINEAPPLES

Serve one slice of Hawaiian pineapple on lettuce leaves.  On the pineapple slice place a spoon of cream cheese and some chopped walnuts and top off with a dash of mayonnaise dressing.

FRUIT SALAD

Slice one pineapple, three oranges, and three bananas.  Pour over it a French mayonnaise, put on lettuce leaves and serve at once.  For those who do not care for the mayonnaise, make a syrup of one cup of sugar and one-half cup of water, boil until thick, add juice of lemon, let slightly cool, then pour over fruit.  Let stand on ice one to two hours.  Another nice dressing is one cup of claret, one-half cup of sugar, and piece of lemon.  Always use lemon juice in preference to vinegar in fruit salads.  All fruits that go well together may be mixed.  This is served just before desert.

FRUIT AND NUT SALAD

Slice two bananas, two oranges and mix them with one-half cup of English walnuts and the juice of one-half lemon with French dressing.  Serve on lettuce leaves.

GRAPE-FRUIT SALAD

Cut the grape-fruit in halves and remove the pulp, being careful to get none of the tough white skin.  Mix with bananas and oranges and stir in white mayonnaise dressing.  Remove all skin from the inside, of the grape-fruit and fill with the mixture, heaping it high and ornamenting with maraschino cherries.  Lay each half in a bed of lettuce leaves and serve.

BANANA DAINTY

Cut the bananas in half crosswise and arrange them on a plate, radiating from the center.  Sprinkle with grated nuts or nutmeg and heap white mayonnaise in the center.  Garnish with maraschino cherries.

HUNGARIAN FRUIT SALAD

Mix together equal parts of banana, orange, pineapple, grapefruit and one-half cup of chopped nuts.  Marinate with French dressing.  Fill apple or orange skins with mixture.  Arrange on a bed of watercress or lettuce leaves.  Sprinkle with paprika.

NUT SALAD

Make a plain grape-fruit salad.  When you have it ready to serve, cover the top thickly with finely chopped almonds or pecans mixed.  Pour over French dressing.

RUSSIAN FRUIT SALAD

Peel and pit some peaches, cut in slices and add as much sliced pineapple, some apricots, strawberries and raspberries, put these in a dish.  Prepare a syrup of juice of two lemons, two oranges, one cup of water and one pound sugar, a half teaspoon of powdered cinnamon, grated rind of lemon, add one cup red wine and a half glass of Madeira, arrak or rum.  Boil this syrup for five minutes, then pour over the fruit, tossing the fruit from time to time until cool.  Place on ice and serve cold.