[Sca-cooks] oil & vinegar dressings

[Alex Clark]

At 01:19 PM 3/17/2004 -0500, Phillipa wrote:
>My lord, that is EXACTLY what I would like to do, but every time I try to
>mix it on the spot, All I get is a mouthful of vinegar and a mouthful of
>oil, It never mixes properly. As a matter of fact,  How DOES one properly
>mix together a nice tasting dressing from the cruet of oil and the cruet of
>vinegar that is found in many restaurants. I would really like to pour mine
>from cruets as I go.

According to the cooks of King Richard II (not quite as high an authority 
as G*d), you take your salad veggies, "myng hem wel with rawe oile; lay on 
vyneger and salt, and serue it forth." I suggest doing a bit more mynging 
to stir in the vyneger and salt.

-- 
Henry of Maldon/Alex Clark