Salad Dressing
Ingredients
Directions
In a bowl, combine mayonnaise and prepared vinegar.
Add coarse sea salt to taste.
Mix well until smooth.
Serve over your choice of salad.
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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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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