Rocket Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1970s)

Rocket Salad

Source:  Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place a crisp lettuce leaf on a salad plate.   

Launching Pad: 1 slick pineapple

Rocket: 1/2 peeled banana set upright in center of pineapple slice

Nose Cone: 1/2 maraschino cherry fastened to top of banana with a toothpick

Festive Chicken Salad (The Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese Cookbook, 1981)

Festive Chicken Salad
Source: The Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese Cookbook, 1981

1 8-1/4 oz can crushed pineapple, undrained
1 8-oz. container soft Philadelphia Brand cream cheese
2 cups, chopped cooked chicken
1 6-oz can water chestnuts, drained and sliced
1/2 cup celery slices
1/4 cup green onion slices
1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
1/4 tsp salt
Dash of pepper
4 medium tomatoes

Drain pineapple, reserving syrup. Combine reserved syrup and cream cheese, mixing until well blended. Add pineapple and combined remaining ingredients. Mix lightly. Chill. Cut each tomato into 6 sections, almost to stem end. Fill with chicken salad.

4 servings.

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Hot Fruit Dessert (A Favorite Dessert of President Kennedy)

According to Mary Barelli Gallagher, Jacqueline Kennedy's White House secretary, this was a favorite dessert of President Kennedy.

Source: My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy, Mary Barelli Gallagher, David McKay Company, Inc. 1969

Hot Fruit Dessert

3 small cans apricots
3 small cans pineapple pieces
3 small cans peaches
3 No. 2 cans pitted Bing cherries
3 oranges
3 lemons
1/2 cup light brown sugar
Nutmeg

Grate rind of oranges and lemons into sugar. Spread fruits, layer by layer, including oranges and lemons, sliced very thin, in baking dish. Sprinkle each layer with brown sugar mixture and a generous sprinkling of nutmeg.

Heat all until very hot and serve topped with some sour cream.

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