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Best Salad Dressing Recipes

Best Salad Dressing Recipes

Fruit-Salad Dressing

In a double boiler, combine 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, ¼ teaspoon dry mustard, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon paprika. Slowly add ½ cup fresh lemon juice. Cook over hot water, stirring, until slightly thickened. Stir in 1 tablespoon of butter or salad oil, and 2 sieved hard cooked egg yolks. Refrigerate. Makes ½ cup.

Lime-Mint Fruit Salad Dressing

In a small bowl, with spoon, combine 1 3-oz package of soft cream cheese, 2 tablespoons of honey, and ½ cup mayonnaise until smooth. Fold in ½ cup heavy cream, whipped; 1/8 teaspoon salt; 3 tablespoons lime juice; 2 tablespoons snipped mint. Serve this dressing over chilled canned pineapple slices in lettuce cups.

Lemon-Caraway Dressing

Combine all of these ingredients in a jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake well, covered; refrigerate. Shake well again before using.

  • ¾ teaspoons salt
  • Speck of pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon paprika
  • 1/8 teaspoon onion salt
  • ¼ teaspoon sugar
  • ¼ cup fresh, frozen, or bottled lemon juice<
  • ¾ cup salad oil
  • ½ teaspoon caraway seeds

    Coffee-Fruit Dressing

  • 1/1/2 teaspoon instant coffee
  • ½ teaspoons dry mustard
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
  • 2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • ¼ cup fresh, frozen, or bottled lemon juice
  • 1/3 cup canned pineapple juice
  • 1 egg yolk

    Blend together coffee, mustard, salt; stir into butter. Combine milk, juices, and egg yolk; stir in butter mixture. Beat until thickened. If thicker consistency is desired, refrigerate before serving.

    ”Sundae Salad Dressing”

  • ¾ cup chilled, drained canned fruit cocktail (or coarsely diced fresh or canned peaches)
  • 1 banana, coarsely diced
  • ½ cup mayonnaise

    Shortly before serving, mix ingredients. Serve on “Ice Cream Salad” (recipe below)Makes about 1-½ cups.

    Jersey Dressing

    Combine 1 can condensed tomato soup, undiluted; 1 cup mayonnaise; ¼ cup pickle relish; 1 chopped, hard-cooked egg; ½ teaspoon grated onion; ½ teaspoon prepared mustard; 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Toss cooked lobster meat with this dressing.

    ”Ice Cream” Salad

  • 1 lb. Cottage cheese
  • 6 to 8 radishes, diced
  • ¼ cup chopped walnuts
  • “Sundae” Salad Dressing (recipe above)

    If the cottage cheese is quite moist, drain off excess liquid. Add radishes and walnuts. Chill well in refrigerator, or in freezing compartment. (Do not freeze mixture solid.) At serving time, heap cheese mixture roughly into balls on shredded lettuce; top generously with “Sundae” Salad Dressing.Makes about 4 servings.

    Be sure to take a look at the Dressings page to find more wonderful combinations. And some more best salad dressing recipes.

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