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Luncheon Ladies
The character behind these salad gals was my mother. She'd serve them to my teachers each spring at a special lunch she hosted. I did the same when my children were little. Nowadays, I make them for my friends who love luncheon ideas like this.
—Harriet Rummel, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Ingredients
- 3 celery ribs
- 4 hard-boiled large eggs
- 12 whole cloves
- 4 pimiento slices
- 20 carrot curls
- 4 tomato slices
- 4 lettuce leaves
- 2 cups chicken salad
- 12 ripe olive slices
- 8 whole pitted ripe olives
Directions
- 1. Cut eight 1-in. celery sticks and set aside. Cut eight 1-1/2-in. pieces from remaining ribs; with a sharp knife, make lengthwise cuts in each piece, as close together as possible, beginning 1/2 in. from one end. Place in ice water. Refrigerate until celery begins to separate, about 1 hour.
- 2. To form ladies, place each egg on a salad plate. Insert cloves into egg for eyes and nose. Add a pimiento for a mouth. Surround top and sides of egg with carrot curls for hair. Position a tomato slice below egg for the body. Tuck the narrow end of lettuce leaf under tomato for skirt.
- 3. Spoon 1/2 cup chicken salad under each lettuce leaf. Place three olive slices on each tomato for buttons. Drain frilled celery ribs; place next to tomato for arms. Place celery sticks below lettuce for legs. Place whole olives at ends of celery for shoes. Serve immediately.
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