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Parisian French Dressing

A historical lunch recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • ½ cup Olive Oil
  • 5 tablespoons Vinegar
  • ½ teaspoon Powdered Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Bermuda Onion
  • 2 tablespoons Parsley
  • 4 Red Peppers
  • 8 Green Peppers
  • 1 teaspoon Salt

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Mix ingredients in the order given. Let stand one hour, then stir vigorously for five minutes. This is especially fine with lettuce, romaine, chiccory, or endive. The red and green peppers are the small ones found in pepper sauce.

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Where this recipe comes from

Parisian French Dressing, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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