Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-23 | Page 18 | Fruit Salad on Crisp Greens Makes Ideal Holiday Dinners

META GIVEN MENUS Fruit Salad on Crisp Greens I Makes Ideal Holiday Dinners So long as a salad has beauty crispness and a good flavor vor it will compliment the holiday din din- ner The basic fresh crisp greens in any salad fits it into the seasons season's seasons season's seasons season's sea sea- sons son's color scheme One can stop with these essentials and have a perfectly satisfactory Christmas salad Many hostesses however want to go farther in carrying out yuletide colors or to arrange salad materials to carry out some seasonal motif Fresh or canned fruit molded In a flavorful and sparkling red gelatin such as cherry or berry is an attractive and simple way way to obtain the red-green red color scheme A salad consisting of canned or fresh pear halves or thick slices of pineapple served with big wedges or cubes of cream cheese tossed in red pomegranate seeds a achieve c chi h i e eve v e similar results With neat sections sections sections sec sec- of pink or tinted chilled grapefruit lt it is easy to fashion pink poinsettias on glass salad plates of contrasting color The big bunch of pollen inthe in inthe the center can be tastefully simulated by heaping g diced oranges or persimmons in the the center little tufts of heart leaves lea of curly endive tucked here and there between the golden diced fruit A larger plume of curly endive or a strip of green pepper can be used to complete the poinsettia tion A star salad can also be attained attained attained at at- easily by joining five neat and perfectly shaped sections of grapefruit concave edges on outside at their points to form torm forma a pointed five-pointed star in center of glass salad plates Have lave pink grapes cut in halves and s seeded ded and heaped in center Fruit Juice Salad Dressing 3 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour It U teaspoon salt nit 15 1 cup orange juice 3 1 cup lemon Juice ulce 1 wp cup pineapple juice 2 trIOs eggs beaten 6 oz 2 2 cream cheese chene 14 34 1 pint whipping cream creim Of If desired Mix dry ingredients in top of double boiler Add fruit juices and blend Cook over boiling water for tor 20 minutes stirring occasionally to keep smooth Beat the eggs with a rotary beater add a small amount of the hot mixture gradually stirring stirring stirring stir stir- ring to keep smooth Return to double boiler cook for five minutes minutes minutes min min- utes stir constantly C Cool o o 1 slightly add slowly to softened cream cheese beating with a rotary beater until thoroughly blended and fluffy Chill ChilI and store in a covered container Makes Inkes two cups If It desired this dressing may maybe maybe maybe be added to stiffly beaten whipped cream before serving Sour Cream Olive OH Fruit Dressing 1 cup sour lour cream crum 1 cup finely chopped d ripe olives ti 4 teaspoon celery salt 2 teu teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons lemon juice Pinch salt Combine all ingredients Chill Serve Sere with any fresh or cooked fruit salad combination Makes about 1 cups