842. +How to Serve Blackberries.+-- Put blackberries into a colander, let cold water run over them and set colander for a few minutes into a dishpan to drain; put the berries into a glass dish with powdered sugar. Huckleberries are prepared the same way.
843. +Banana and Orange Salad.+-- Remove the skins from 4 bananas and cut the fruit into slices; pare and cut ½ dozen oranges into small pieces and remove the seeds; put oranges and bananas alternately into a glass dish with sugar sprinkled between, set them on ice for 1 hour and then serve.
844. +Pineapple Salad.+-- Pare and quarter 1 ripe pineapple, remove the hard part in center and cut each quarter into fine slices or dice; pare and cut ½ dozen oranges into small slices and remove the pits; put oranges into a glass dish in alternate layers with pineapple with plenty of sugar sprinkled between and place them on ice for 1 or 2 hours before serving. Strawberries with pineapple are prepared the same way.
845. +Cherry Salad.+-- Remove the pits from 1 pound cherries, sprinkle with sugar and let them stand for 1 hour; then put them with 1 pint ripe strawberries and a little more sugar into a glass dish, set them on ice for 10 minutes and serve.
846. +Fine Mayonaise, No. 1.+-- The yolks of 4 eggs, 8 tablespoonfuls salad oil, 4 tablespoonfuls white vinegar, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, from 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls French mustard and ½ pint whipped cream or 3 tablespoonfuls condensed milk which is not sweet; put the yolks in a small saucepan and stir them to a cream; then slowly add, stirring constantly, 4 tablespoonfuls oil; when this is well mixed add the 4 spoonfuls vinegar, set the saucepan in a vessel of boiling water and stir over the fire till contents of saucepan begin to thicken; then instantly remove and continue the stirring until cold; then slowly add the remaining 4 spoonfuls oil, stirring constantly; next add the salt and sugar; then the mustard and lastly the cream or condensed milk. This mayonaise is excellent if made exactly according to recipe. These quantities will make a mayonaise sufficient for 10 persons. If the mayonaise is not all wanted at one time fill it into jelly glasses without the cream. It will then keep for some time. The cream can be added when wanted for use.