Here's another cute recipe from the 1960s when composed salads were all the rage.

Bunny Salad
On each salad plate make a nest of finely shredded lettuce and place a half pear, face down in the center to represent a bunny's body. Add a ball of cream cheese or cottage cheese for the tail, bits of pimiento for the nose, and blanched almond halves for the ears. Form a carrot from pimiento cheese, add a little parsley, and put it just under the bunny's nose.

It reminds me of a similar salad my mother served at all special family dinners. The pears and bing cherries were home-canned. We used only iceburg lettuce in those days because that's what was available at the grocery store.

Stuffed Pear Salad

Iceburg lettuce
Canned pear halves
Velveeta cheese (or shredded cheddar)
Chopped nuts
Canned bing cherries, pitted and cut in half
Dab of mayonnaise

Put a flat piece of lettuce on each salad plate. Remember it's more of a garnish in this case than health food. For each serving place a pear half, round side down, on the plate. Form teaspoons of cheese into balls and roll them in the chopped nuts. Put the cheese in the hollow of the pears and put a cherry half on each side of the cheese, sort of hugging it as if the cherries were stuffed with the cheese. Add a dab of mayonnaise somewhere for that 50's finished look.

This is my cousin Alison talking to my mother in my grandma's garden.