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Show A French Potato Salad Secret. The French have a secret with regard to potato salad that, while very simple, yet if known and applied to one Amorl- i can dish would change its character much for the better. We. each one of U3 caii bring to mind the wholesome flavor of po-tato po-tato and dish gravy tro.r, a jc.nt of be.. The Frenchman's secret enables us to Ur Dart this flavor In combination with tf.s relish of a salad If we have at hand a small bit of coarse gravy meut or a tiny ! pot of beef extract. The meat is to be heated through and every trace of juice pressed out and suited to taste or enough of the extract used to give a good meat flavor to four tablespoontuls of hot water. f The potatoes are to be cooked as waxy 5 as nosslble. With old potatoes th Is can f be done by throwing them into the coland- er and spreading them out one by one to I become thoroughly cool. "When prepar- Ing the saiad, each thin slice of potato la S to bl immersed In the beef juice ust long enough to take the flavor witnout be- com ng ' moist enough to break. When She oil penuer. salt and vinegar are added and all jfently tossed, the salad is ready to send to table. Finely chopped pars ey f Improve,, the appearance, but is not called 5 for in the above recipe, while the beef j gravy Is insisted upon. . .. |