2 cup diced cooked turkey
1 cup pineapple chunks -- well
1 drained
1 cup diced celery
1/2 cup sliced greed onions
1/4 cup dry roasted peanuts
1 cup seedless green peppers
2/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp chopped chutney
1 tbsp lime juice
1/2 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 lettuce leaves -- optional
Directions
In a mixing bowl, toss first six ingredients. In a small bowl,
combine all remaining ingredients except lettuce. Pour over turkey
and mix gently. Chill. Serve on a bed of lettuce, if desired. Yields:
4 servings.
The fruit, nuts and seasonings give the salad a unique flavor.
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Servings: 4 servings
After-The-Holidays Salad Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Holiday; Salad
The History of Recipes
Food historians have found proof that recipes existed way back into antiquity, at least as far as the early Egyptians, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that is, sadly, these early cookbooks were just very simple pictorial instructions for preparing food.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to experts are a few stone tablets in Sumerian which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making those who drank it feel blissful. Later on, in Roman times 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled a number of documents describing recipes enjoyed by the Romans. In his works, he recounts how the meals were split into hors d`oeuvres, main course and afters, something we still use today. He also describes how the chefs of Roman times made use of many spices and herbs, including a few that are still present in modern kitchens such as thyme, mint and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years there were two interesting books dating from the fourteenth century ; a recipe book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, these books are not about the curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead accounts of the types of meals eaten by the rich people of those days. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought us many spices and herbs from the holy land, including parsley and basil. The introduction of these new culinary ideas created an increase in manuscripts on food, many of which are now in private cookery archives. During the succeeding few hundred years, the rich and powerful families of Wesstern Europe competed with each other to serve the most exotic banquets, and consequentially the best cooks and their recipe collections became highly prized. However, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that formal cookery and recipe collections became popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, testing, and recording popular recipes of the day. By the arrival of the 1900s, cookery books were in high demand, mostly due to better eduction, people having increased free time and disposable income. Like it or not, the introduction of television brings us cooking programs and the accompanying recipe books. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing everybody to search through massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on this recipe site. |
We hope you enjoy this After The Holidays Salad recipe.
