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Date and Orange Salad

From Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper, 1902

A nice fruit salad.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DATE AND ORANGE SALAD “ requires no food but a skin of dates, which will last him for days ; a delightfully simple commissariat.” Date and Orange Salad.— A nice fruit salad is of oranges, sliced (pips taken out), and stewed dates, with a syrup of orange-juice

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