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Easy Carrot Raison Salad Recipe

Boil some raisins in water to make plump, drain, and cool.
Grate carrots, add the raisins, and add a little mayonnaise and stir it up. Easy!

Lettuce and Cucumber Salads!

Seven Layer Salad

This is a great salad for those summer get togethers. Simple to make and looks like you spent all day fixing it. Layer as follows in a 9X12 pan.

Chopped lettuce
Chopped onion
Chopped celery, cucumbers or green peppers
Box of frozen peas thawed
Miracle Whip to cover and seal
Grated cheddar cheese
Bacon bits

Cucumber Baskets

Select three long, regular-shaped cucumbers; cut a piece from both the stem and blossom end of each; then cut in halves crosswise. Cut two pieces from each section, leaving remaining piece in shape of basket with handle.

Remove pulp and seeds, in sufficiently large pieces to cut in cubes for refilling one-half the baskets, the remaining half being filled with pieces of tomatoes. Arrange baskets on lettuce leaves, alternating the fillings, and pour over French Dressing.

Cucumber Salad

Remove thick slices from both ends of a cucumber, cut off a thick paring, and with a sharp pointed knife cut five parallel grooves lengthwise of cucumber at equal distances; then cut in thin parallel slices crosswise, keeping cucumber in its original shape. Arrange on lettuce leaves

Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Arrange sliced tomatoes on a bed of lettuce leaves. Pile on each slice, cucumber cubes cut one-half inch square. Serve with French or Mayonnaise Dressing.

Salads with Beans!

3 Bean Salad Recipe

1 can wax beans
1 can green beans
1 can kidney beans

1/2 onion sliced real thin
1/2 green pepper chopped

2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup vinegar
1/3 cup salad oil
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon celery seed

Drain beans, pour into large bowl, add remaining ingredients, stir well Chill several hours or overnight. The green pepper is optional. Chill your cans of beans the night before, make it in the morning before you leave, and it will be ready by the time you get there. Or prepare the night before and it will keep in the fridge.

Bean Salad

In a colander put 1 can yellow beans drained
1 can green beans drained,
1 can lima beans drained
1 can kidney beans drained
rinse thoroughly with water
ADD 1 cup onions chopped fine
1 cup green pepper
1 cup of celery chopped
1/3 cup veg oil
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. celery seed

Put in the fridge in a sealed container until used, and again this will last a week or so until used up,

String Bean Salad

Marinate two cups cold string beans with French Dressing. Add one teaspoon finely cut chives. Pile in centre of salad dish and arrange around base thin slices of radishes overlapping one another. Garnish top with radish cut to represent a tulip. (recipe from 1800's)

Broccolli Salads!

Broccoli Salad Recipe

1 bunch broccoli chopped
1 small onion
1/2 cup raisons (or as desired)
1/2 cup chopped peanuts or cashews

Dressing
5 slices of cooked bacon crumpled
1/2 cup Miracle Whip
1 tsp. wine vinegar
3 tsp. sugar

Mix and Refrigerate overnight

Tomato Salads!

Fire and Ice Salad

6 large tomatoes, peeled and quartered
1 large green pepper, cut in strips
1 large onion, cut in pieces and pull in rings
3/4 cup vinegar
1-1/2 tsp.celery seed
1-1/2 tsp. mustard seed or dry mustard
1/2 tsp salt
4-1/2 tsp. sugar
1/8 tsp red pepper
1/8 tsp. black pepper
1/4 cup cold water

Cook celery seed, mustard and pepper in cold water. Boil 1 minute. Pour over vegetables and chill. (recipe from Indiana recipe book)

Tomatoes Stuffed with Pineapple

Peel medium-sized tomatoes. Remove thin slice from top of each, and take out seeds and some of pulp. Sprinkle inside with salt, invert, and let stand one-half hour. Fill tomatoes with fresh pineapple cut in small cubes or shredded, and nut meats, using two-thirds pineapple and one third nut meats. Mix with Mayonnaise Dressing, garnish with mayonnaise, halves of nut meats, and slices cut from tops cut square. Serve on a bed of lettuce leaves.

Tomato Surprise Salad

Chill 6 tomatoes
Scoop out center and mix with:
1/2 cup diced chicken
3/4 cups diced cucumbers
1/4 cup chopped nuts
1/4 cup mayonnaise

Fill tomatoes and place on a lettuce leaf

Pictures of Salad Recipes in my file

7-up Salad recipe
Best Coleslaw, Classic Coleslaw, Freezer Coleslaw, Frozen Slaw, German Coleslaw
BLT Salad
Cherry Salad
Chicken Rice Salad
Coke Salad
Cottage Cheese Salad 1, Cottage Cheese Salad 2, Orange Cottage Cheese Salad
Crab Salad
Cranberry Salad
Creamy Italian Pasta Salad
Deviled Eggs Recipe 1, Deviled Eggs Recipe 2
German Potato Salad1, German Potato Salad 2
Layered Salad Recipe
Noodle Garden Salad
Pasta Bean Salad
Pineapple Jello Salad, Pineapple Salad
Pink Salad
Quick Jello Salad
Shrimp Salad
Spiced Grape Salad
Summer Salad
Taco Salad