Fruit Salad Help

lostinrates

thenanny2die4 wrote: »

To be honest, I'd say you don't really need any form of juice at all, but that depends on the fruit you use. If you add apples, (and possibly pears) you will need something to dissuade them from going brown; pears you will get away with if you make and serve quickly.

I used to make a lot of fruit salad when I was doing a Nanny/Housekeeping job a few years ago, as my employer liked to have a bowl of fruit at the ready for encouraging her teenage boys to snack on something other than cereal... A favourite there was "Red Fruit" - self explanatory really: water melon (very cheap when in season), strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, redcurrants...

There's no "right" way to do it - just use whatever fruit appeals to you. I find I'm much more inclined to eat fruit if there's a bowl ready in the fridge.

I agree, a juiceless salad is delicious prepped and eaten not too far apart. Imo one in juice, though a little more prosaic, is more durable and can go back into the fridge for the next day more appealingly.

gibson123

I always use pineapple or melon as a base and add everything else in. I always put in an orange, cut the segments from the pith and then squeeze the remainder in your fist to finish off. I always have a fruit salad in the fridge.

meritaten

I was taught to make fruit salad in the late sixties/early seventies and it involved a lot of lemon juice! firstly because it was mainly apple and banana based and secondly because not many 'exotic' fruits were available! Then drown it all with orange juice!

the way I do it now is to chunk up a pineapple, add chunks of melon and only then cut up some apples or pears. add them to the pineapple and pears and toss in some grapes and if cherries are out of season - throw in a jar of maraschino cherries. sans jar! I may also use a mangoe if I have one - only then if there is not enough juice do I add some - and its usually 'tropical fruit juice'! I dont like blueberries in my fruit salad, perhaps its just me, but raw blueberries are too bitter for me. Strawberries are too precious for fruit salads - they are eaten on their own usually with cream or sugar! or in a nice merangue or cream nest...........ohhhhhhhh When will summer arrive? my mouth is watering!

Money_maker

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Fruits like blueberries and strawberries are probably out of my budget.

Asda had half pound punnets of strawbs for £1 today if that helps.

sonastin

We always used either orange juice or the juice out of tinned peaches or mandarins. OH's view is that fruit salad should be made with syrup - made from sugar and water. Might be because he'll have sugar on everything!

Bronnie

meritaten wrote: »

I was taught to make fruit salad in the late sixties/early seventies and it involved a lot of lemon juice! firstly because it was mainly apple and banana based and secondly because not many 'exotic' fruits were available! Then drown it all with orange juice!
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Me too, except we were taught to make a sugar syrup to put over the fruit!

Jevvers

Sainsbury's basics tinned pineapple rings are fine and you can chop them up and add the juice from the tin as your juicy base.

lisa26_2

When I was a kid fruit salad was apples, oranges and pears and a few grapes if we were lucky. Occasionally we'd get some tinned pineapple in it too. The juice in our house was diluted orange squash with lemon juice added (from a squeezy plastic lemon not a real one). bananas were banned if I was going to be eating it as they go mushy!!!

these days my fruit salads tend to be made up of whatever is on offer in the supermarket or on the market. ideally I'd have pineapple, mango, melon (any variety except water melon) and grapes.

meritaten

Bronnie wrote: »

meritaten wrote: »

I was taught to make fruit salad in the late sixties/early seventies and it involved a lot of lemon juice! firstly because it was mainly apple and banana based and secondly because not many 'exotic' fruits were available! Then drown it all with orange juice!
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Me too, except we were taught to make a sugar syrup to put over the fruit!

Lol - my cookery teacher thought sugar was still on ration I think! she never used it where you could substitute something else!

our mums had to order the orange juice from the milkman for the day before to ensure that we had some - supplies from the shop were unreliable and I remember some girls used to turn up with those brown bottles of 'baby orange' from the baby clinic!

daska

I think every family has their own ways of doing fruit salad. My mum always used apples, pears, grapes and an orange with water, honey and lemon juice for the liquid. She was horrified when we went to a party and the host had sliced a star fruit to decorate it with :eek:

My outlaws buy a punnet each of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries and throw them in a bowl with nowt else. Doesn't seem like a fruit salad to me but then I'm 'the ex' so it doesn't really matter LOL