Take a tasty trip back in time with these old-fashioned fruit salad recipes collected from various antique cook books. Inside you'll find classics (Waldorf Salad) and variations on the classics, unique little-known recipes, and some of the stranger fruit-salad recipes no longer found on the modern menu. Scattered throughout discover old-fashioned fruit salad advice, ads, and pictures from cook books dating back to the late eighteen hundreds to early nineteen hundreds.
(1894) Transparent Orange Dressing - How We Cook in Los Angeles
(1900) English Walnut and Sour Oranges Salad - 20th Century Cook book
(1903) Orange and Walnut Stuffed Cantaloupe - The Rocky Mountain Cook Book
(1907) Banana, Peanut, and Graham Cracker Salad - The Rural Cook Book
(1909) Grapefruit, Grape, and Rum Salad - Just for Two
(1910) Egg and Banana Salad - Sunshine Cook Book
(1910) Interstate Fruit Salad - Brockton Hospital Cook Book
(1911) Raspberry and Currant Salad with Basil and Lemonade Dressing - The Laurel Health Cookery
(1912) Cherry Waldorf Salad - Lowney's Cook Book
(1915) Chestnut and Apple Salad - The Nature Cure Cook Book
(1915) Pineapple Walnut Dressing - Benson Woman's Club Cook Book
(1917) Frunut Salad - Mrs. Norton's Cook Book
(1918) Grapefruit, Orange, and Tomato Salad - Twentieth Century Club War Time Cook Book
(1922) The Twenty-Four Hour Grape and Marshmallow Salad - Hanover Cook Book
(1922) Apricot, Marshmallow, and Pecan Salad - The All-American Cook Book
"Fruit salads are much out of place in the dinner menu unless they figure as the last course, when they are served with crackers, cheese and coffee. This is an unusual custom that is rapidly growing in popularity" -"Win the War" Cook Book (1918)
