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"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> Farm1 wrote:
>> If anyone is interested, in a google hunt I found this recipe:
>> http://www.gastronomydomine.com/?p=345
>>
>> Interestingly enough, that recipe is close to the Fannie Farmer recipes
>> however they differ in FF using a fresh egg and the online recipe using a
>> hard boiled egg.
>>
>> I also found that apparently Heinz invented Salad Cream especially for
>> the UK market in the 1920s so sf was quite right (although now i'm
>> wondering why ti was that FF has 2 recipes for it) apparently Mr Heinz
>> product contains far less fat than a normal salad dressing.

> Heinz could have invented a specific salad cream for the UK market, but
> salad cream existed before then.


Yep. Otherwise Fannie Farmer wouldn't have had it in her book. And I
wonder if the original Heinz one was as foul as the current version. Surely
not or in that era, when peeps were closer to how food was really produced
than we are today, the product probalby wouldn't have survived.