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French Salad Dressing

From Miss Parloa's new cook book, and marketing guide (1890).

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A historical recipe

Miss Parloa's new cook book, and marketing guide, by Maria Parloa (1890).

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. one saltspoonful of salt

Method

  1. Three table-spoonfuls of oil, one of vinegar, one saltspoonful of salt, one-half a salt-spoonful of pepper.
  2. Put the salt and pepper in a cup, and add one table -spoonful of the oil.
  3. When thoroughly mixed, add the remainder of the oil and the vinegar.
  4. This is dressing enough for a salad for six persons.
  5. If you like the flavor of onion, grate a little juice into the dressing.
  6. The juice is obtained by first peeling the onion, and then grating with a coarse grater, using a good deal of pressure.
  7. Two strokes will give about two drops Qf juice — enough for this rule.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From Miss Parloa's new cook book, and marketing guide (1890), printed page 210, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/missparloasnewco00parl_0

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.