{"id":3558,"slug":"tuna-salad-1940","title":"Tuna Salad (1940)","description":"This classic tuna salad recipe is from the 1940's U.S.","ingredients_raw":["1 can (6–9½­ oz / ~170–270 g) tuna","¼ apple, finely chopped","½ stalk celery, finely chopped","¼ cup mayonnaise (low fat can work)","1 tsp lemon juice","½ ea. chopped green onion or ½ tsp dried chopped white or yellow onion","1 hard boiled egg, chopped (or two hard boiled egg whites and a bit of oil olive oil to make up the difference)","Ground black pepper to taste","Paprika (optional)","Lettuce (optional)"],"ingredients_norm":["tuna","apple","celery","mayonnaise","lemon juice","ea. chopped green onion or tsp dried chopped white or yellow onion","hard boiled egg","ground black pepper","paprika","lettuce"],"steps":["Drain and squeeze tuna dry, discarding liquid or reserving for some other use.","Combine tuna, apple, celery, mayonnaise, lemon juice, green onion, egg, and pepper.","Refrigerate 1 hour or more.","Sprinkle with paprika and trim with lettuce, if desired."],"categories":["Salad recipes","Recipes using tuna","Recipes for salad","Refrigerated recipes","Recipes using apple","Recipes using celery","Recipes using lemon juice","Recipes using hard-cooked egg","Recipes using green onion","Recipes using lettuce","Recipes using mayonnaise"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Tuna_Salad_(1940)","source_ref":"4518185","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Tuna_Salad_(1940)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"fe6dea32ee5fc120f7e19924bf97070fdd0ac336f48db3915e5499a0d9fb1e06","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:29Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:29Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/tuna-salad-1940"}