Bunny Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls, 1970)

Bunny Salad
Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place crisp lettuce leaf on plate.

On top of lettuce, place upside down: 1 chilled pear half

Make bunny with narrow end for face.

Eyes: 2 raisins
Nose: 1 red cinnamon candy
Ears: 2 blanched almonds
Tail: cottage cheese ball

Fiesta Fan Peach Salad (Canned Cling Peaches from California Ad, circa 1951)

 
Fiesta Fan Peach Salad
Canned Cling Peaches from California Ad, circa 1951

Arrange canned cling peach slices in fan pattern on garnished salad plate. Place small lettuce cup at base of fan. Fill with mayonnaise or salad dressing. Garnish with orange and grapefruit sections, apple or avocado slice and pimiento ribbons.  Also try a salad of plump sun-ripe peach halves on cottage cheese

Pear-Go-Round Salad (Del Monte Ad, Ladies Home Journal, July 1958)

Pear-Go-Round Salad 
(Del Monte Ad, Ladies Home Journal, July 1958)

1 cup cottage cheese
1 package (3 oz) cream cheese
4-6 green (mint flavored) maraschino cherries, halved
1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup syrup from green cherries
2 packages strawberry or cherry flavored gelatin
1 can (1 lb. 13 oz.) Del Monte Pear Halves
Salad greens

Mix cottage and cream cheeses. Soften unflavored gelatin in syrup from cherries; dissolve over hot water.  Stir into cheese. Arrange cherry halves in bottom of 1 1/2 qt. mold or bowl; carefully spoon in cheese mixture. Chill until set.

Make red gelatin, using 3 1/2 cups liquid for the 2 packages instead of the 4 cups called for in directions. Chill until syrupy, pour over cheese. Chill 4-5 hours. At serving time, unmold on greens, add well-drained pear halves.

Serves 8-11