Does anyone have a good recipe for a dressing for a fruit salad ?
I saw one on the web the other day. It looked nice, but it was made with MAYONNAISE !!
Surely yoghurt would taste better than Mayonnaise !

If you mix mayonnaise with sugar it goes through a rather unexpected metamorphosis. I worked in a deli at one point, where we made our own salads, and like you, I was very dubious. But to my utter surprise, it worked. Well, as much as a creamy dressing on fruit can work.

An alternate idea would to use a fruit flavoured vinegar, like orange or raspberry, plus a light flavoured oil, or maybe a nutty one, depending on what fruit you are using. You could season it with mint or lemon balm.

Oh, and balsamic vineger and cracked black pepper works really well with strawberries.

You could do an 80s fruit salad and have the juice from a can of fruit (heaves).

It's usually called ice cream.

Just get a can of squirty cream.

Seriously, you can't get a better dressing for fruit than cream or ice cream. Or have it with meringue nests. Or are you serving it to a bunch of health freaks? Health freaks will know fruit contains sugar, so...

80s, really? We were having fresh fruit salads by the late 70s.

Now the 60s, when I was a child, yes. Tinned fruit with evaporated milk, and squabbling over the cherry

OP, is it for a starter?

There's a recipe for a mint dressing that I keep meaning to try, but haven't got around to yet.

1¾ tbsp white wine vinegar
2 tbsp groundnut oil
4 tbsp olive oil
18 mint leaves
½ tsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp caster sugar
4 tbsp double cream

"To make the dressing simply put everything except the cream in a blender and whizz. Add the cream and check the seasoning – this is a sweet-sour dressing so you need to get the balance right."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...ng-recipe.html

Fresh fruit salad with the juice from tinned fruit on it was all the rage in my family in the 80s. We do live in Belfast which is 30 years behind the times though.

Rum! To misquote the great Homer: rum is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Whenever I've made fruit salad I just add juice of citrus fruits I prefer limes but add what ever you like.

raspberry coulis with a dash of port.