2 tart green apples
1 sweet red apple
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 celery stalks, sliced
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
¼ cup dried cranberries or currants
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoons honey
1/2 head iceberg lettuce
1/2 head Bibb lettuce

Wash apples.  Core each apple, discarding seeds and slice into thin strips.  Place apples in a large mixing bowl.  Drizzle apples with lemon juice to coat.  Add celery, walnuts, cranberries or currants, salt and pepper.  Cover mixture and chill in refrigerator for 1 hour.  In a small bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise and honey until smooth.  Toss dressing with apple mixture.  Arrange lettuces on a serving platter.  Top lettuce mixture with apple mixture.  Serve.







Serves 6
Patriot History

Oscar Michel Tschirky, a maitre d’, created this salad for a pre-opening private party at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1893.


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