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French Salad dressing

From Mrs. Hale's new cook book (1857).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Hale's new cook book, by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1857).

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a saltspoonful of salt

Method

  1. Stir a saltspoonful of salt and half as much pepper into a large spoonful of oil, and when the salt is dissolved, mix with them four additional spoonsful of oil, and pour the whole over the salad ;
  2. let it be well turned, and then add a couple of spoonsful of vinegar ;
  3. mix the whole thoroughly and serve it without delay.
  4. The salad should not be dressed in this way until the instant before it is wanted for table: the proportions of salt and pepper can be increased at pleasure, and common, or cucumber-vinegar may be substituted for the tarragon, which, however is more frequently used in France than any other.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Mrs. Hale's new cook book (1857), printed page 295, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b28075195

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.