Fruit Salad

Ingredients

• half a pint of cherries
• half a pound of strawberries
• half a pint of ripe gooseberries
• three bananas
• half a pound of grapes
• two ripe apples
• two ounces of shelled walnuts
• one ounce of bleached almonds
• half a pound of loaf sugar
• one pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Stone cherries, remove stems from strawberries, top and tail gooseberries, cut bananas into cubes, and prepare grapes and apples.

2. 2

   Place all in a bowl.

3. 3

   Boil sugar in water to make syrup, cool, and pour over salad.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 97. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Salad. — Stone a half pint of cherries, remove the stems from half a pound of strawberries, top and tail half a pint of ripe gooseberries, cut up three bananas into small cubes, remove the stalks and seeds from half a pound of grapes, pare and cut out the core of two ripe apples and cut them into small pieces, two ounces of shelled walnuts and one ounce of bleached ^lmonds cut into quarters. Place all these ingredients into a large bowl. Have ready half a pound of loaf sugar in one pint of water

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