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Salad Dressing

A simple mayonnaise and vinegar dressing seasoned with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Salad Dressing

Salad Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine mayonnaise and prepared vinegar.

  2. Add coarse sea salt to taste.

  3. Mix well until smooth.

  4. Serve over your choice of salad.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Provides the creamy, fatty base that gives the dressing its body and smooth texture.
Prepared vinegar
Adds acidity that gives the dressing its tangy flavour and cuts the richness of the mayonnaise.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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