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French Fruit Salad

From THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL COOK BOOK. New Edition, Completely Revised with Illustrations (1896).

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A historical recipe

THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL COOK BOOK. New Edition, Completely Revised with Illustrations, by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896).

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

  • Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 1 head lettuce

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 2 oranges 14 cup nut meats 3 bananas 1 head lettuce or romaine 14 pound Malaga grapes French Dressing * or Cream Mayonnaise (p.
  2. 491) Pare oranges and remove sections.
  3. Peel bananas and cut in 14-inch slices.
  4. Remove skins and seeds from grapes.
  5. Break nut 4 meats in pieces.
  6. Mix all with dressing and arrange on salad green.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL COOK BOOK. New Edition, Completely Revised with Illustrations (1896), printed page 516, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bostoncookingsch0000unse_l7b6

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.