Pear Salad

Ingredients

• Select ripe, rich flavored fruit
• one-third the quantity of sliced bananas
• one-fourth as much broken English walnut meats
• enough French dressing to make slightly moist
• the well beaten yolks of three eggs
• a small cupful of powdered sugar
• the juice of one lemon
• half a cupful of any tart fruit juice

Method

1. 1

   Pare, core, and slice pears.

2. 2

   Mix with bananas, walnuts, and French dressing.

3. 3

   Serve cold in lettuce cups.

4. 4

   Optionally, prepare a sweet dressing with egg yolks, sugar, lemon juice, and tart fruit juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEAR SALAD. Select ripe, rich flavored fruit, pare core, and cut in thin slices. Mix with one-third the quantity of sliced bananas, one-fourth as much broken English walnut meats, and enough French dressing to make slightly moist. Prepare only a short time before it is to be served and serve cold in bleached lettuce cups. If pre- ferred, a sweet dressing may be made with the well beaten yolks of three eggs, a small cupful of powdered sugar, the juice of one lemon, and half a cupful of any tart fruit juice

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