The mixture of ingredients is refrigerated for a few hours or overnight before serving to allow the flavors to meld.
InNew Zealand, ambrosia refers to a similar dish made with whipped cream, yoghurt, fresh, canned or frozen berries, and chocolate chips or marshmallows loosely combined into a pudding.
The earliest known mention of the salad is in the 1867 cookbook Dixie Cookery by Maria Massey Barringer.[4][5] The name references the food of the Greek gods.[6]
^Griffiths, Alan H. (1996), "Ambrosia", in Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Anthony, Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-521693-8