Salad dressing recipes?

Question

Okay, I want THE BEST homemade salad dressing recipes you have. I'm particularly interested in a Hot Bacon dressing and a good old fashioned 1,000 Island. But any others you have I will greatly appreciate. I collect recipes like some folks collect stamps.

Answer 1

Ingredients:
3 cups water
1 1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chicken soup base (optional)
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 pound bacon (6-7 strips) -- chopped
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup flour


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Directions:

Combine water, sugar, vinegar, salt, soup base and pepper. Heat to boiling.

In a separate pan brown bacon. Remove bacon to water mixture. Fry onions in bacon fat until soft but not brown. Add flour and let it bubble up to 2-3 minutes. Add this roux to hot water mixture. Stir until smooth. Simmer 5 minutes.

Answer 2

My father taught me this recipe many years ago.

THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING

Take a regular water glass. Pour about 1 inch of pickle juice into the glass (sweet or sour - your choice). Add a "plop" of catsup and a "plop" of mustard (that equals to about 3 T of catsup and 2 T of mustard). Add fresh ground black pepper and 1/2 tsp celery seed. Add about 1/3 c mayonnaise. Stir well. It's OK to have some white lumps in it - that's the mayonnaise. If you want to perk it up a little, add about 1/3 tsp ground red pepper or cayenne pepper.

That recipe is WONDERFUL with a nice Crab Louie or Shrimp Louie and it really brings out a wonderful flavor with any hard-boiled eggs. You can add it to your potato salad and add cooked and crumbled bacon to the potato salad - very good. That's with the assumption that your potato salad contains potato, onions, pickles, radishes and hard-boiled eggs.

Answer 3

I don't cook with measuring spoons, etc. but I used to make this for my former husband and he loved it.
Thousand Island
Mayo
Ketchup
a pinch of sugar
sweet pickles diced/ sweet pickle relish
and a drop or two of vinegar if I just use the pickles.
Well the trick here is to just keep tasting till it is what you like.
I find it makes a big difference in the brands I use cause I grew up with those tastes.
I use Best Foods/Hillman's Mayo
Heinz Ketchup
Heinz sweet pickles or sweet pickle relish

Answer 4

Everyday Herbed Vinaigrette (Makes 1/3 cup)

Add all ingredients into small screw cap jar and shake well.
Refrigerate if not used right away.

2 tbsp vegetable oil

2 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar
(cider vinegar or red wine vinegar is tasty)

1 tbsp water (optional - use for a lighter flavour)

1 garlic clove minced

1 or 2 tsp mustard (Dijon flavour is good)

2 tbsp mixed fresh chopped herbs (or 2 tsp dried)
- basil, parsley, dill etc.

Pinch of salt and pepper.

Answer 5

Hi!
I have a tried and tested thousand island dressing that's fool-proof. Mix a dollop of ketchup in mayonnaise (if you'd like it to be a little bit more tangy and more orange-y in color, add more ketchup), add some pickle relish if desired and voila! There's your easy to make thousand island dressing.
For other salad dressings, I'll get back to you. :)