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Yuletide Salad

Added on Tue Nov 27 2007

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" This fun retro recipe comes from a vintage cookbook entitled Bestway Cookery Gift Book. "

This recipe belongs to 'Festive Foodies'

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The Basics

• Dish: Side Dishes
• cuisine: English
• Serves: 6 to 8
• Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 0hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pint cranberries
• 6 oz sugar
• 1/2 cupful chopped apple
• 1/2 pint of water
• 1/2 oz gelatine
• 1/2 cupful diced celery
• 1/4 cupful ground walnuts
• Mayonnaise 
• Lettuce leaves 

Method

Pick and wash the berries. Boil them with the water and sugar until they are soft, and then rub them through a sieve. Dissolve the gelatine in a little water and stir it into the cranberry puree and leave it to cool. When it is beginning to set, add the prepared apple and celery and nuts. Turn the mixture into wet individual moulds. When the jellies are quite set serve them arranged on a glass dish lined with lettuce leaves. Garnish each jelly with a spoonful of mayonnaise. Serve the jellies with cold turkey or chicken.