Spicy Dressing
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mme_hardy From Woman's World, August, 1937.
This is for making a mixed vegetable salad, or for "moistening" chopped raw vegetables for use as a sandwich spread. It probably wasn't as dreadful as I think it sounds, but, Lord, it doesn't sound good.
e: Five or six pages later: "Surprise the family with delicious Grape-Nuts mousse". I'll say. It's an Italian meringue with cream, grape nuts, and vanilla beaten in, then frozen.
4 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons glycerine
1 teaspoon salt
Dash of cayenne
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 cup vinegar.
Combine butter and flour in double boiler, add milk gradually and cook, stirring constantly, as for white sauce. Beat egg yolks and glycerine slightly, then add remaining ingredients, stir into first mixture, and continue cooking until thick and smooth. Remove from fire and pour slowly over stiffly beaten egg whites, beating while pouring. When cold cover and keep in refrigerator.
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons glycerine
1 teaspoon salt
Dash of cayenne
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 cup vinegar.
Combine butter and flour in double boiler, add milk gradually and cook, stirring constantly, as for white sauce. Beat egg yolks and glycerine slightly, then add remaining ingredients, stir into first mixture, and continue cooking until thick and smooth. Remove from fire and pour slowly over stiffly beaten egg whites, beating while pouring. When cold cover and keep in refrigerator.
This is for making a mixed vegetable salad, or for "moistening" chopped raw vegetables for use as a sandwich spread. It probably wasn't as dreadful as I think it sounds, but, Lord, it doesn't sound good.
e: Five or six pages later: "Surprise the family with delicious Grape-Nuts mousse". I'll say. It's an Italian meringue with cream, grape nuts, and vanilla beaten in, then frozen.
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Date: 2017-06-14 06:44 am (UTC)Fresh mayonnaise would not have been an option for a whole generation anyway, as food rationing didn't finally end till 1953, and nobody would have wasted their precious egg on salad dressing.
Salads were sad affairs anyway, consisting of three or four of the following laid out on each person's plate:
A leaf or two of lettuce
A radish
Two or three slices of tomato
One or two spring onions
Three or four slices of cucumber, peeled (they were very bitter in those days, and the slices were often soaked in vinegar beforehand)
Two or three slices of pickled beetroot
Served with a couple of slices of cold meat and tinned potato salad. The only available dressing was Heinz salad cream.