The Archive · 1927

A Salad from Cabbage

The ordinary salad made from lettuce is becoming scarce and, oven if it were not so, we have had. so Now tooth brushes in cold water for sine hours before use, for this prevents bristles coming out so readily. Nail brushes, too, benefit by occu.

nal wash th water contain many that perhaps we are even getting a little tired of it, For a Sunday night supper, when it is wise to have everything prepared before-thand as much as possible, cellent and novel salad can be made from half a cabbage.

Take half a cabbage, hard and well bleached. With a sharp knife shave the cabbage into thin sli tip them into a glass dish, sp with salt and cover with ' vinegz ing a little disinfectant, TO PREVENT CHILBLAINS, If you are subject to chilblains and you wish to prevent them from. appearing this winter, avoid extremes of boat and cold. Don't warm your hands at the fire; warm Last of all plac a plate over t shredded cabbage and a weight on top of it. Leave for a night and a day. Just before it is needed pour off the vinegar into a cup, mix a dressing of a pinch of mustard, some olive oil, and some of the vinegar. pouring it over the cabbage and mixing well. The vinegar which has been poured vit cun be used again, enuekles, paint with a of iodine. This will stain the but if you apply the tine true at the first sight of an approaching chile you will, in the maj prevent. it from right' through the wint>r be well worth ti

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