Name: Apple and Date Salad
Ingredients: two tablespoonfuls of olive oil

Apple and Date Salad

A salad of sliced apples and dates dressed with olive oil, served with lettuce, bread, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Mackay, L. Gertrude. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients

Apple and Date Salad

Ingredients

two tablespoonfuls of olive oil

Directions

Prepare

Cut the pared apples into tiny strips.
Cut the dates into similar pieces, using about one-fourth as much date as apple.

Dress and rest

To each pint of material add two tablespoonfuls of olive oil and turn the mixture over again.
Let stand closely covered for half an hour.

Serve

Turn into a bowl lined with lettuce leaves.
Serve with bread and butter at luncheon or supper.

By Mackay, L. Gertrude. [from old catalog]. 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

What each ingredient does

Olive oil: Coats the apple and date pieces, adding richness and moisture to the salad.
Dates (in the method): Add concentrated sweetness and a chewy texture against the crisp apple.
Apples (in the method): Provide the crisp, juicy base of the salad.

“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.