A Good, Inexpensive Salad Dressing
A historical recipe from Mary at the farm, and book of recipes compiled during her visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans", by Thomas, Edith M. (Edith May) (1915).
A historical recipe
Mary at the farm, and book of recipes compiled during her visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans", by Thomas, Edith M. (Edith May) (1915). Project Gutenberg eBook #13545.
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From Mary at the farm, and book of recipes compiled during her visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans", by Thomas, Edith M. (Edith May) (1915). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #13545 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13545). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
Method
- 1 tablespoonful flour.
- 1 tablespoonful butter.
- 1 tablespoonful mustard.
- 1/2 tablespoonful sugar.
- 1 teaspoonful salt.
- 1 egg.
- 3/4 cup milk.
- 3/4 cup vinegar.
- Use a double boiler, put in it the first five articles, stir together until smooth;
- add the well-beaten egg and the milk.
- Let cook, stirring hard.
- Then add vinegar, and beat all with an egg-beater until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
- Let cool before using.
- Aunt Sarah frequently used this salad dressing over sliced, cold, hard boiled eggs when other salad materials were not plentiful.
- Serve on lettuce leaves.