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Frozen Fruit Salad

A chilled fruit salad made with grapes, oranges, cherries, pineapple, and gelatin, served on lettuce with mayonnaise and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By United Methodist Church (Grayville, Ill.) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,771 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Frozen Fruit Salad

makes four cans, enough for twenty-four or more slices

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Add one can of chunked pineapple and one can of white cherries to a bowl.

  2. Add the juices, two pounds of Malaga grapes, six oranges (pulled into bits), two dozen Maraschino cherries, and one-half box of Cox's gelatin (add more if necessary, but do not make it too stiff).

Freeze and serve

  1. Pack the mixture in ice and salt in pound baking powder cans for six or eight hours.

  2. This quantity makes four cans, enough for twenty-four or more, according to thickness when sliced.

  3. Serve on a lettuce leaf with mayonnaise and whipped cream.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

211Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
53 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By United Methodist Church (Grayville, Ill.). 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Malaga grapes
Provide the main fruit bulk and juicy texture in the frozen salad.
Oranges
Add juice and bright acidity that balances the sweetness of the salad.
Cox's gelatin
Helps the mixture set so it holds its shape when sliced.

The step that matters

Add the gelatin without overdoing it. Gelatin sets the mixture firmly, so too much makes the salad stiff and rubbery when frozen. Adding it gradually lets you control the final texture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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