Heavenly Delight Salad from United Air Lines
Creamy, ambrosia-like Heavenly Delight Salad shown here with Pot Roast and Delmonico Potatoes
City/Region: United States of America
Time Period: 1954
This fruit salad has a very retro feel typical of food from the 50s and 60s, the Golden Age of air travel. It would have been served as part of one of the elaborate meals that were standard fare at the time.
Heavenly Delight Salad is very much a dessert, though it’s not as sweet as I thought it would be. The tart apples and lemon juice balance the honey and maraschino cherries well, and this kind of reminds me of ambrosia.
Ingredients:
- 4 tart apples, peeled and chopped in 1/2” (12 mm) pieces
- 32 mini marshmallows
- 8 maraschino cherries, cut into quarters
- 1 cup (235 ml) heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 teaspoons honey
- Lettuce leaves for serving, optional
- Whole maraschino cherries for garnish, optional
Instructions:
- Toss the apples, marshmallows, and cherries together.
- Whip the cream to stiff peaks. Fold in the lemon juice, mayonnaise, and honey.
- Add the whipped cream to the apple mixture and stir it together. Dish it into a cup made of lettuce leaves if you want to try to play up its salad-ness, and garnish with a maraschino cherry if desired.
- Serve it forth with Pot Roast and Delmonico Potatoes for a full meal from the Golden Age of air travel.