If potatoes are specially prepared for the purpose, cut them in cubes or balls, blanch, and cook in well-seasoned beef stock; drain, and add, when cold, to the fish.

Season with French dressing.

Arrange on a bed of cress and sift the yolk of an egg over the whole.
=Salad of Shad Roe and Cucumber.= Cook two shad roes with an onion, sliced, and a bay leaf, in salted, acidulated water twenty minutes; drain, and marinate with about two tablespoonfuls of oil, one tablespoonful of lemon juice and a dash of pepper and salt.

When cold cut in small cubes.

Rub the salad-bowl with a clove of garlic cut in halves.