Name: Olive and Pimentos
Ingredients: ½ cup olives, well drained; ½ cup pimentos, well drained; ⅓ cup mayonnaise

Olive and Pimentos

Ingredients

½ cup olives, well drained
½ cup pimentos, well drained
⅓ cup mayonnaise

Directions

Chop the olives and pimentos finely.
Combine the chopped olives and pimentos in a bowl.
Add the mayonnaise and mix well.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Olives: Provide salty, briny flavor and a firm, chopped texture to the salad.
Pimentos: Add sweetness, mild flavor and soft color contrast against the olives.
Mayonnaise: Binds the chopped ingredients together and adds richness and moisture.

“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.