publication context
Good Housekeeping Folio
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 41
Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 · Page n42 · View context source ↗
Source evidence: GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 41
Editorial context
This entry presents three inventive Edwardian presentation ideas under the name "compotes," though they function as novelty serving containers or centerpieces fashioned from raw produce. The three presentations use bananas (or a banana-shaped vehicle) to hold strawberries, halved lemons tied with ribbons to hold fruit salad, and a hollowed-out raw turnip to hold meat salad... meat salad. I'll leave that for you to think about for a while...
Original
THREE ODD COMPOTES.
Three Odd Compotes The banana compote is an odd and novel way of serving strawberries for breakfast. Place an individual dish of sugar, powdered, at the side of each plate of berries. The turnip is for meat salad. The turnip must be washed well, the center scooped out, and then let stand in cold water some twenty minutes. Fill with meat salad about forty minutes before serving time, so that the meat may be flavored with the turnip. The lemon is cut in two from end to end, the pulp removed, and filled with fruit salad and then tied with baby ribbons. This should be accompanied with cheese straws.
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- Publication
- Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1
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- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
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- n42
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Public rights statementThis material was originally published in the United States in 1900 and is believed to be in the public domain in the United States. Source: Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1, 1900-07-01, page n42, via https://archive.org/details/sim_good-housekeeping_good-housekeeping_1900-07_31_1. Repastory is not affiliated with or endorsed by Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 or its current owner. Rights may vary outside the United States.
Recipe
Ingredients
- banana
- strawberries
- powdered sugar, powdered
- turnip, washed well, center scooped out, soaked in cold water
- meat salad
- lemon, cut in two from end to end, pulp removed
- fruit salad
- cheese straws, for serving
Directions
The banana compote is an odd and novel way of serving strawberries for breakfast. Place an individual dish of powdered sugar at the side of each plate of berries.
For the turnip compote, wash the turnip well, scoop out the center, and let it stand in cold water for about twenty minutes. Fill with meat salad about forty minutes before serving time so the meat takes on the flavor of the turnip.
For the lemon compote, cut a lemon in two from end to end, remove the pulp, fill with fruit salad, and tie the halves with baby ribbons. Serve accompanied by cheese straws.
- Item type
- recipe
- Yield
- Not stated
- Timing
- Not stated
- Temperature
- Not stated
- Equipment
- individual dish; spoon or scoop (for hollowing); baby ribbons
Names & connections
Source context
related reference
Salad note concluding the column
and mustard leaves may be all used with lettuce. Omit sugar in all the above recipes if so desired.
Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 · Page n42 · View context source ↗
Source evidence: and mustard leaves may be all used with lettuce. Omit sugar in all the above recipes if so desired.
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