Salade d’Auvergne

Name: Salade d’Auvergne (Lettuce with Bleu Cheese Dressing)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon Madeira; ½ teaspoon grated lemon rind; 2 tablespoons white vinegar, or wine vinegar; Freshly ground pepper; ⅛ teaspoon salt; 1 clove garlic; Minced parsley and paprika; ½ cup mayonnaise; ¼ cup Bleu cheese; ¼ cup sour cream; ¼ cup whipping cream, approximately; ½ teaspoon chervil; ½ teaspoon crushed tarragon leaves; Head lettuce to serve 6

Lettuce with Bleu Cheese Dressing

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

The Bleu cheese of this area is famous, and so it is only natural that here one finds a Bleu cheese dressing served on salad. This fact, no doubt, will disillusion many of us who have always thought this dressing to be an American contribution to the world of food.

Ingredients

1 clove garlic
⅛ teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper

Europe
France
Mediterranean
Auvergne
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Spicy

Method

Mash garlic to a pulp in a salad bowl. Add salt (remember the cheese is salty), pepper, and vinegar. Continue to mash the garlic. Add lemon rind, Madeira, and mayonnaise.
Put whipping cream into a measuring cup. Add Bleu cheese to the cream until the cream measures ½ cup;