Choose-a-Fruit Salad
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 350. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
- 4 cups desired fruit (see below)
- Lemon juice
- Leaf lettuce
- 1/2 cup Honey-Lime Dressing, Apricot-Nectar Dressing, or Fluffy Fruit Dressing (see recipes, page 358)
Instructions
- If necessary, brush fruits with lemon juice to prevent darkening (see tip below). On a lettuce-lined platter, arrange fruit. Serve with Honey-Lime Dressing, Apricot-Nectar Dressing, or Fluffy Fruit Dressing.
- Fruit options: Choose any combination of peeled and sliced or cut-up avocados, bananas, kiwi fruits, mangoes, melons, papayas, peaches, or pineapple slices; cherries, citrus segments, nectarines, tangerines, or plums; peeled and sectioned oranges, tangerines, or grapefruit/berries (halve any large strawberries); halved and pitted dark sweet cherries; or halved seedless grapes.
Source and image provenance
Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "[hospital, food] Fruit Salad" by David Jackmanson; license: CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/); source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/58301516@N00/49387511697. Cropped/resized.
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