Or, ✠
½ lb. old cheese, grated.
1 hard-boiled egg.
½ teaspoonful cayenne.
1 teaspoonful salt.
1 teaspoonful white sugar.
1 teaspoonful made mustard.
1 tablespoonful onion vinegar.
1 tablespoonful salad oil.
Rub the yolk of the egg to a paste with the oil, adding in order the salt, pepper, sugar, and mustard, lastly the cheese. Work all well together before putting in the vinegar. Serve in a crab-shell.
These mixtures bear a marvellous resemblance in taste to devilled crab, and make a good impromptu relish at tea or luncheon. Eat with crackers and butter. This is still better if you add a cupful of cold minced chicken.
Use none but the best and freshest olive salad oil (not sweet oil, falsely so called) in compounding your salad-dressing. If you cannot obtain this, melted butter is the best substitute I know of.