Fruit Salad

fruit salad an item which has adorned millions of menus in the western world, was first recognized as a dish in the mid-19th century. Mariani (1994) treats it as a precursor of the modern American term ‘fruit cocktail’ and says that American recipe books of the 1850s referred to ‘fruit salad’. Ayto (1993) says that the term seems to have been first mentioned (in Britain) by Mrs Beeton (1861).