Celery and Apple Salad

Ingredients

• 2 sweet apples
• 1 head of celery
• 1/2 cup of English walnuts
• 1/2 cup of mayonnaise

Method

1. 1

   Peel the apples and cut into very small bits; chop the celery and press in a towel; chop or break up the walnuts, but save two halves for each person besides the half-cupful you put in the salad.

2. 2

   Mix all together, lay on the white hearts of lettuce on plates, and then put the walnuts on top, two on each plate.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1/2 CUP °f mayonnaise. Mix and put on lettuce. Celery Salad £ heads of celery. 3 hard-boiled eggs (or else 1 cup of English walnuts). 1/2 cup very stiff mayonnaise. Wash, wipe, and cut the celery into pieces as large as the first joint of your little finger, and then rub it in a clean towel till it is as dry as can be. Cut up the eggs, sprinkle all with salt, and add the mayonnaise and lay on lettuce. Or mix the celery and the walnuts and mayon- naise; either salad is nice. Celery and Apple Salad 2 sweet apples. 1 head of celery

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