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

String Bean and Onion Salad (Watkins Salad Book, 1949)

String Bean and Onion Salad
Watkins Salad Book, 1949

1 1/2 lbs green beans
1 large sweet onion
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup vinegar (dilute with water if too strong)
Watkins Pepper

Wash beans thoroughly, remove strings and ends, and cut lengthwise. Cook in boiling salted water (1 tsp salt to a quart of water) only until tender. Drain.

Cut onion fine, add hot beans, olive oil, sugar, pepper and vinegar. Chill and let stand an hour to flavor.  Serve on crisp lettuce.