Mandarin Shrimp Salad

Ingredients

• 1 lb cooked weight boiled shelled deveined shrimp 2 lb raw shrimp in shell
• 5 oz can water chestnuts drained
• 12 c mayonnaise
• 13 c heavy cream whipped
• 11 oz can mandarin orange segments drained
• 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
• salt and white pepper
• lettuce leaves
• 1 bunch watercress
• 2 oz jar pimiento strips

Directions

1. Slice the water chestnuts as thin as possible
2. Fold the whipped cream into the mayonnaise
3. In salad bowl combine the shrimp mayonnaise mixture water chestnuts orange segments and Tabasco sauce
4. Add salt and white pepper to taste
5. Let the salad marinate in refrigerator for 12 hour before serving
6. Line cold dinner plates with lettuce leaves
7. Spoon the salad onto the lettuce
8. Place 2 large sprigs of watercress on each portion of salad at opposite sides of serving plates
9. Place the pimiento strips on top of salad just before serving