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Fruit Cocktail

From Soyer's standard cookery, 1912

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1912. 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 Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 220. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Cocktail. Remove pulp from grape fruit, and mix in a bowl with shredded pineapple, bananas cut in slices and then quartered, and strawberries cut in halves, using half as much pineapple and banana as grape fruit, and allowing four strawberries to each person. Pour over a dressing made of one-third cupful sherry wine, three tablespoonfuls apricot brandy, one-half cupful sugar, and a few grains salt

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