Best 1950s Picture Salad Peach And Cottage Cheese Recipes

1950S PICTURE SALAD: PEACH AND COTTAGE CHEESE

Steps:

• Put a lettuce cup on each salad plate. This is a leaf of lettuce that is curled to form a cup-like shape.
• Place one peach half in each cup.
• Top with about 1/2 cup cottage cheese mixed with chives.
• NOTE: Other Picture Salads: All are to be seved on cups of salad greens.
• Pineapple Chunks 'n' Cherries: Arrange these two in lettuce cups. If using fresh cherries, it is nice to pit them.
• Apricot 'n' Cream Cheese: Use drained apricot halves, cut side up. Top with softened cream cheese and chopped dates.
• Pineapple-Banana Nut: Plae fluted sliced bananas (which have been dipped in pineapple syrup) on rained pineapple slices. Sprinkle with salted peanuts.
• Molded fruit Cocktail: Fold well-drained fruit cocktail into slightly thickened fruit jello, using the syrup for part of the liquid used to make the jello.
• Blushing Pear: Put 2 pear halves together with softened cream cheese. Sprinkle paprika on one side to make a blush. Top with cream cheese green pepper, and a water cress stem.

ANOTHER 1950S PICTURE SALAD: CANDLE SALAD

Steps:

• Blend the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon together with a mixer. Reserve.
• Peel bananas and cut in half crosswise. Remove the tips.
• Divide the lettuce among 4 plates Place a pineapple ring in the center of each plate. Fill the center with reserved cream cheese mixture. Place a banana (pointed end up) upright in the center of pineapple ring. Top the banana with a gumdrop "flame." Squeeze a little cream cheese m mixture onto the tip of each "candle" to represent wax.
• NOTE: As an alternate to the cream cheese mixture above, mix two tablespoons mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon peanut butter. Pour over "candle." Use a maraschino cherry for the "flame" instead of the gumdrop.