This section is from the book "Tested Recipes for the Modern Hostess", by Daisy Wilson Barnet. Also available from Amazon: Tested Recipes for the Modern Hostess.
Select sweet peppers. Let them stand in ice water several hours. When crisp, remove the seeds through the stem end and cut across in thin even rings. Heap these in the center of a flat dish, with a border of crisp lettuce leaves, and pour over the peppers a thick mayonnaise seasoned with 1/2 teaspoon Darwin's salad vinegar.
Slice or shred the pineapple, arrange on lettuce leaves. Over this pour mayonnaise, and scatter browned almonds on top.
Cut the grape fruit in two. Remove the pulp carefully with an orange spoon, reserving all the juice. Strain the fruit dry. Let the juice become cold and when ready to serve mix 3 tablespoonfuls of it with 6 tablespoonfuls of olive oil, 1/2 teaspoonful of salt, a dash of paprika, 1/4 teaspoonful onion juice. Arrange fruit on lettuce and pour the dressing over it.
Select red bananas, remove the skins, roll in mayonnaise and then in very finely chopped nuts of all kinds. A little mayonnaise is added and the bananas are served on lettuce leaves.
 
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