Cabbage apple salad

6 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1largeHead cabbage
1Red apple
1Stalk celery
Russian dressing
1cupDiced celery
2cupsDiced apples
1Green pepper, diced
½cupChopped nuts
1Tomato, chopped

Directions

Remove coarse outer leaves from cabbage. Cut slice from top. Remove most of the inner portion of cabbage with a sharp knife, leaving a shell. Pink top with scissors. Prepare 2 cups shredded cabbage.

Combine with diced apple, celery, pepper, nuts, and tomato. Add Russian dressing. Mix lightly with 2 forks. Pile lightly into the cabbage shell. Decorate the top with a wreath made from sections of the unpared red apple, and a celery curl made from the stalk of celery. Place on a large plate. Garnish with hearts of lettuce.

Florence Taft Eaton, Concord, MA.