How to Cook Yummy Boiled dressing

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Boiled dressing. A simple mixture of flour, water, eggs, and mustard make up this old-fashioned "boiled" dressing. The dressing is actually not boiled; it is quickly cooked over boiling water. It's a good choice for a vegetable or main dish salad, or use it in chicken salad, tuna salad, or slaw.

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This recipe is iconic of her.

A Boiled Dressing can be thought of as sort of a Hollandaise Sauce for fresh vegetables.

You can cook Boiled dressing using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Boiled dressing

1. Prepare 3 tbs of sugar.

2. You need 1 tbs of flour.

3. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.

4. You need 1/2 tsp of dry mustard.

5. You need 1/8 tsp of red pepper.

6. Prepare 1 tbs of butter.

7. Prepare 1/2 cup of vinegar.

8. You need 1/2 cup of water.

9. Prepare 4 of egg yolks.

It draws on the principle that eggs and vinegar will emulsify in a liquid and form a creamy concoction.

The base is usually eggs, vinegar, and a liquid such as cream, milk or water.

Some recipes also use a small amount of flour or cornstarch as a thickener.

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Boiled dressing step by step

1. Mix the dry ingredients, then add the butter, vinegar and water; cook in double boiler over until smooth.

2. Beat the yolks.

3. Add the hot mixture very gradually To the yolks, stirring constantly..

4. Cook in double boiler until mixture thickens, stirring constantly..

5. When ready to serve, add a little cream or lemon juice to thin it..

6. NOTE: to make it with oil, beat I 1/2 cui oil with a rotary beater. It will not separate..

A little trouble to make but you can taste the difference.

Most commonly used as dressing for pasta salads, potato salads or plain boiled potatoes, in coleslaw, in deviled eggs, drizzled over meats, or tossed in vegetable salads, like Broccoli Salad.

It can also be thinned down with milk to make a fabulous salad dressing for lettuce wedges.

Add egg yolks, beaten, then butter and milk, stirring to keep smooth.

In microwave safe bowl mix sugar, cornstarch and salt.