French Dressing, or Sauce Vinaigrette

Preparation info
  • Makes

    ¼ cup

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Good Cheap Food

By Miriam Ungerer

Published 1973

  • About

Nobody knows who blamed the French for that orangy guck we call French dressing (probably General Consolidated Amalgamated Foods, Inc.), but it really wouldn’t be allowed to cross the French border. This again proves that almost nothing sold already prepared is either as good or as cheap as your own concoction. It’s cheaper still if you cut the olive oil by about half with plain salad oil (Wesson or one of those vegetable oils). It isn’t too good an idea to make more than a two-day supply o