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A Honey of a Dressing

Posted on August 28, 2017 by heritagerecipebox

When in doubt for what to bring to a pot luck, look in your refrigerator. I found a whole watermelon and some arugula. How could I put those together? This seemed like a job for a good salad dressing.

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‘Tossed Salad Superb’ for a Healthy Start

Posted on January 12, 2016 by heritagerecipebox

Pre-washed greens make for the simplest salad possible: open the plastic container, put the leaves in a bowl, and add dressing. In the middle of winter, when the only produce on the shelves comes from greenhouses or countries on the … Continue reading →

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Freshly Picked and Marinated

Posted on August 26, 2015 by heritagerecipebox

Marinated vegetables usually remind me of mushrooms dripping with oil, plus already-soggy white bread on the side. Yet a 1980s recipe from the Richmond Times-Dispatch tempted me because in the past month, I’ve eaten enough crudités to feel like Peter … Continue reading →

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Waldorf Salad with a Midwest Twist

Posted on July 11, 2015 by heritagerecipebox

My summer base in western New York puts me closer to Cleveland than to the east coast, so I have a new radius for recipes to try. Since Empire apples are already being sold at the farm stand down the … Continue reading →

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Funny Bunny Salad and Other ’60s Silliness

Posted on April 26, 2015 by heritagerecipebox

Forget broccoli-topped pizza and carrot sticks with yogurt dip. Recipes from the Easy-to-Cook Book from 1967 (Grosset & Dunlap) unabashedly rely on frozen vegetables, canned fruits, bacon, and butter. 

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Winter Salad from the Turf and Field Club Era

Posted on March 11, 2015 by heritagerecipebox

Leave it to my grandmother, Hanna, to clip every newspaper recipe that remotely interested her and then stash it away where she couldn’t find it again. I came across dozens of yellowed clippings inside a book for Royal Baking Powder … Continue reading →

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Carrot-Raisin Salad for National Raisin Week

Posted on May 4, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

Name a food, there’s probably a holiday to celebrate it. That’s what I discovered at foodimentary.com, a site that tracks almost daily tributes, from the sublime-sounding National Coconut Cream Pie Day (May 8) to the somewhat ridiculous National Nutty Fudge Day (May 12). When … Continue reading →

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Canned Peach Salad to “Heighten Appetites and Brighten Meals”

Posted on February 20, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

Blame the invention of canned food on Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1795, the French general – who proclaimed that “an army marches on its stomach” – offered 12,000 francs to anyone who could come up with a way to provide his … Continue reading →

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