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Show Meal-in-ltself Salad Is Boon To Summer Cook The whole-meal-ln-ltself salad Is a boon to the summer harassed housewife. With a little Ingenuity she may combine the foods she usually serves aa a main course Into a very attractive at-tractive salad. And that salad often may be assembled hours before serving serv-ing time. i One of tha moat Important Ingredients In-gredients In any aalad la lettuce. And ona of tha moat Important qualities of lettuce Is its ability to keep cool and crisp. Remove the core with a sharp knife and hold the lettuce under a stream of cold water. Then care-' care-' fully remove each leaf. Lettuce cupa may be made of ! lettuce treated in this way. Or leavea may be placed around the ' edgea of a aalad plate In tha old-fashioned old-fashioned manner. ' A new trick, however, la to fill ' each leaf and roll it together and then place aeveral rolls on each salad plate. Full heads of lettuce, thoroughly rinsed In cold water with the wilted outside leavea removed, may be cut i into quarters, sliced or shredded. : Tasty meal-in-one salads may be made of meat, fish, fowl, hard cooked eggs and even cheese In many combinations. Each may be combined with 1 cooked or raw vegetables of unlimited un-limited varietiea and seasoned with salad dressings. Served with rolls, hot biscuits, graham bread and butter, but-ter, they are complete main courses in themselves. |