Beauty Salad
From A practical cook and text book for general use, 1896
Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A practical cook and text book for general use (1896) by Ellen Goodell Smith, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Beauty Salad. Have perfect strawberries and dark colored. If large split from stem to point. Cut a banana^n twice through cross-wise then slice the pieces length-wise, about one-quarter of an inch thick. Lay the pieces on a nearly flat salad plate, a green one if readily found, using the end pieces for the ^^^y with the points outward,. Over these put a layer of strawberries which if they have- been cut, must be laid with cut faces down. Above these a layer of banana slices cut cross-wise and finish with a layer of strawberries. Dust each layer lightly with powdered sugar and garnish with a few petals pulled from^ a fresh rose
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