Mandarin Shrimp Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. (cooked weight) boiled shelled deveined shrimp (2 lb. raw shrimp in shell)
5 oz. can water chestnuts, drained
1/2 c. mayonnaise
1/3 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

Preparation

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