Another 1950s Picture Salad Candle Salad Recipes

GRANDMA'S CANDLE SALAD

Steps:

• Place lettuce leaf on a plate.
• Add cottage cheese.
• Add pineapple ring.
• Put half of banana on pineapple ring.
• Dab (mayonnaise) salad dressing on top of banana.
• Place cherry on top.

AND ANOTHER 1950S PICTURE SALAD: EASTER BUNNY SALAD

Steps:

• Shred the lettuce. Make a bed of lettuce on each plate.
• Place a pear half in the center of each lettuce bed, round side up. Insert 2 almonds in the narrow end of the pear for the ears. Slice a cherry in half and cut each half into 3 parts. Insert the cherries to look like the eyes and nose of the bunny. Cut marshmallows to look like the tail.

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.