Name: To Dish Up Pine Apples
Ingredients: 1 pineapple (4 to 6 pounds); dyed moss; vine leaves (real or artificial); a substantial thick cushion-like ring (tampion)

To Dish Up Pine Apples

Ingredients

1 pineapple (4 to 6 pounds)
dyed moss
vine leaves (real or artificial)
a substantial thick cushion-like ring (tampion)

Directions

Leave the stalk on the pineapple for stability.
Stick the pineapple into the tampion to hold it upright.
Cover the base of the pineapple with dyed moss and vine leaves.
Arrange other fruits around the pineapple in artistic groups.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.