Everything about French Dressing totally explained
French Dressing is a term used in
Britain and the
U.S. in particular, to describe the most common
salad dressing in France: the
vinaigrette, and its many variations. The dressing is generally accepted to be a type of
vinaigrette but often including different ingredients. It seems one of the few countries where the term isn't used is
France, where this
salad dressing is only ever referred to as a
vinaigrette.
History
The term "French Dressing", to describe vinaigrette, became popular in Britain and the USA in the
1880s, and as
salads increased in popularity, many different variations of the
condiment emerged, up to today.
Interpretations
UK
The
British French Dressing is more varied than the American version and the ingredients differ depending on taste. Most common recipes contain
olive oil and
white or
red wine vinegar or
lemon juice as a base and can often contain
salt,
sugar,
pepper,
mustard, and
garlic. There is no set manufactured French dressing recipe and companies often make several different types of dressing to suit different tastes.
United States
In the
United States of America,
French dressing is a type of
salad dressing, also called Catalina dressing, containing
sugar and
tomato ketchup. This French dressing can be "white" or "red" and is essentially a
vinaigrette. It is often sold bottled in the U.S. People in some parts of the
Southern United States (especially in the
Biloxi, Mississippi, area) pour French dressing on
pizza. Midwestern
folklore has it that the condiment's name stems from its invention by the wife of Lucius French, a founder of
Hazleton, Indiana. French's intense aversion to vegetables brought him to the brink of
scurvy several times; his wife supposedly created the tangy, unconventional dressing as a means of coaxing the bellicose French to consume salads. The story is likely apocryphal, however.
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