"Farm1" > wrote in message
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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.
>

I have to admit to being brought up on Heinz salad cream and I still like it
and buy it from the local "gourmet shop" but a quick search of Google auk
found this
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_nf...c93daecb32ac40
and the one I liked the look of was the 2nd choice here
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...4050001AA5liSt

Mike