Why Salads in the 1800s Were So Delicious |Real Historic Recipe| 1817 

Below I have translated the salad dressing into modern measurements. I hope that you'll enjoy it at home. It's quite healthy! It is also very strong due to the vinegar so be sure to only use a wee bit at first to see how you like it. Thank you for being here. 😊 Salad Mixture, 1817 2 cups of white wine vinegar 2 tablespoons of salt 3 egg yolks 1.5 tablespoons of mustard 1 cup of extra virgin olive oil Combine the vinegar with the salt and bring to a simmer, removing any scum that may appear if any. Separately in a bowl run your egg yolks through a fine sieve. To this add the mustard and olive oil. Mix together very well. After allowing the vinegar to simmer for 10 minutes, reduce your heat to low then pour in the above prepared egg, mustard and oil mixture. Stir frequently till it is the consistency of cream. Remove from your heat and bottle up once cold. Be sure to give it a good stir or shake when you are ready to enjoy it, as like most oil and vinegar dressings it does separate.

It is interesting how salads are considered by many to be "modern", but in fact go back to medieval times. Salads in older times had a higher % of pungent herbs (like how they are adding parsley, scallions etc.) instead of modern-day where its only lettuce or spinach with neutral favors. Salads, due to high herb content, were considered to aid in digesting, and bring medicinal benefits and were packed with more flavor. Thank you so much for this video.

Your 200 year old salad dressing was the same one my Mom made with white vinegar in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. She made it every couple of months when we lived on a farm in western Canada. It brings back a nice memory for me. Thanks.

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Dear Ron and Justine, I have been watching both of your channels for quite a while now. I am a senior in Assisted Living. I don't have a kitchen here, but I live vicariously thru your channels. My dad lived in Warrensburg for several years until he passed away in 2012. But when I would go to visit him I had started to check out historical aspects in the area. Lovely Countryside, the lakes are all beautiful, the people were all quite friendly. As I said, I enjoy seeing things through your eyes, and it is amazing! Thank you for all of your contributions, and keep up the good work! 👍🥰

Note: if you pour your dressing mixture into a glass pitcher, make sure it has either cooled or the glass is tempered or you could get a surprise.

Looks almost like a cobb salad. It definitely had that crisp refreshing healthy vibe. Love your videos Justine.

A lot of our native wild flowers and so called weeds are relics of ancient cultivation. Spotting these herbs and healing plants is my favourite thing to do while on countryside walks in Summer.

As a lover of history and a former Civil War reenactor, I am so glad to see people from a younger generation appreciating this country’s past and sharing it with the world instead of tearing it down. Well done!!

My mother who was born in the 1920's, grew up on this dressing , but she called it "Hot Bacon" dressing. It is really good.

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Her smile while eating it! So real

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I love these videos so much. This is how we can connect with our relatives and ancestors. Food always bring people together and the fact that you prep and use a real fire to cook says alot. I'll say it before and I'll say it again, cooking in a modern oven vs wood fire and modern measuring cups/spoons vs no standardization and you reading them makes it much harder. You rock!

70 percent of my food is fresh salads due to a liver disease . As long as I eat healthy I will be ok . I love watching this lady cook .

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That looks amazing. I love how the parsley is fully incorporated and used as a salad green instead of being relegated to a garnish or just a bit of herb.

Justine you are so inspiring. It is such a blessing to see women and men like you and Ron. You two are setting wonderful examples for young Americans and you both are teaching all of us about history, cooking, and homemaking. Thank you for all you for each of us!!!!!!!! God Bless you both.

I didn’t know oil olive was so readily available 200 years ago unless you lived near hot climates. So I learned something new today.

I can't explain why this is so relaxing and enjoying to watch. I've watched cooking shows before and I never last more than a few minutes lol.

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What a perfect summer meal - light, refreshing and balanced! Thanks, Justine.

I love bingeing your videos while winding down for the night, this is such a peaceful channel. Everything you make looks absolutely delicious and I can’t wait to try making them myself!

The first chef salad! You make it look so beautiful on the plate.❤😊

So happy to see young RU-vidrs taking the best of the past and showing its relevance today. Without the exploitation of the past, much of what we can learn from antiquities makes for a peaceful, mindful way of living, b/c we had to "do_ so many things for ourselves. We didn't waste until the industrial era, where everything came to be massed produced. I still keep drippings from meat dishes.

I would love to live like this! Yes I definitely could as I've been homeless the majority of my 59 years alive survived with much less and much more rudimentary conditions. 😊

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I have been watching these for a couple years now I think. I’m having an anxiety attack and this is my go-to for panic attacks. It’s so grounding while I do my other coping skills. ❤

A fantastic salad, beautifully plated, I love the dressing!👏👏👏👌👌👌 Thank you 😁😁

I made this salad for my nephew's going away bbq to the Marines. It was delicious and I received compliments and requests for the recipe. Keep up the great content.

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My students love to watch these videos. Sometimes, I show them right before lunch when we're all hungry!

The salad looks delicious. Thank you for sharing with us.

Thank you for sharing your cooking and recipes with us.

Justine I love the vintage cooking content brings so much peace and joy to my heart. 🧡

It does look delicious! Thanks!

That looks so lovely and fresh tasting! We have a local delicacy here called Solomon Gundy! at first i thought you meant that but ours is way different lol. Solomon Gundy is chunks of herring and onions put in a jar or crock with pickling spices and left to age in the fridge. Once its,good and mushy, its,served on crackers with sliced onions. Looks awful. Smells terrible. The old timers love it! 😂

I love watching you cook and do stuff. It's so relaxing, interesting and calming.

Your videos are informative and relaxing at the same time. Greetings to both of you from Mexico.

Oh wow, that does look delicious! Thanks.

amazing vids! I love seeing all of these historic recipes, its so cool!

My family made this every year for Thanksgiving, and we called 7-layer salad, but we had cherry tomatoes and peas instead of parsley and pickles with a mayonnaise-based dressing. So cool to see!

I love these videos. Justine is lovely young woman and I really enjoy watching her cook food from yesteryear. Keep up the good work!

In my culture we have a similar recipe. Few minor differences like in the egg vinaigrette we add in fried garlic, instead of parsley we use cilantro, and usually just stick to hard boiled eggs as a topping, but I like the addition of bacon in this so i think i will try it with mine next time.

A salmagundi is a salad like what you made, but instead of everything being tossed together, the individual ingredients are separated in their own piles on the platter and sometimes set up like a pattern or a mosaic 😊

Very relaxing. Love the music. Love the salad. Delicious. Thanks😊😊😊😊

That looks delicious. Thank you so much for putting all that time and effort into doing the research and cooking the receipts. I enjoy watching you cook and have learned a lot about cooking in the 1820’s. Now to watch your chew and chat with Ron, that one brings the receipt to the table. 😁

Such a wonderful video, makes one want to go back in that naturally nourished environment

Justine, I first heard of a salmagundy salad in Williamsburg. It's pronounced (according to all the representers, etc.) - 4 syllables SAL / MA / GUN / DY (just make the gun sound like goon rather than gun). Don't be afraid of saying it! Theirs is spelled with an I on the end not a Y. Ingredients though were similar except rather than bacon bits they have ham and turkey/chicken and cheddar cheese. Other bits that I don't care for are olives, anchovy filets. They have a simple oil and vinegar dressing. The recipe calls for all of the meats and cheeses to be cut into strips. But I rather think the Salmagundy/Salmagundi salad is their version of a chef's salad which in today's world still means ---whatever you want to put on it, put it there! Note at the beginning of the recipe says it was normally served as a second course (for a big dinner) or as supper. (taken from , notes from Joan Parry Dutton; published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, copyright 1971, 1975, page 87)

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Love both channels. I'll catch chew & chat after Bible study. Perfect dish for today. The cabin looks beautiful this spring day. Have a glorious week, Justine! xoxo

Looks alot like my choices at a salad today in the twenty first century. Amazing!🙂🙃🙂

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❤️❤️It looks delicious and healthy! Wow!

My grandmother made this exact recipe except she cooked the bacon first, drained out most but not all of the bacon grease, and then started simmering the vinegar in that pan. So delicious! It's my favorite recipe of hers.

I just discovered your channel and it has everything I like on a RU-vid video, as the focus is on the food and not on the presenter, including the fact that there's no dialogue. So relaxing!

Im definitely going to try this recipe ❤ Looks so yummy Justine :)

This is my type of salad: healthy and hearty!❤ Yumm!

I love your 19th century home and furnishing. Everything so warm, cosy and comfortable.

Looks almost like a cobb salad .it definitely had that crisp refreshing healthy vibe

The salad looks delicious! Did the dressing have too much vinegar flavor? Also, did you have pickled okra? I love that 😋

What a perfect summer meal - light, refreshing and balanced! Thanks, Justine.

I love that glass pitcher. That looks super delicious! I didn’t realize that early Americans had access to things like olive oil. Lol I always thought that most struggled to just eat meat and potatoes/corn/bread, and if they were lucky, they had a kitchen garden for summer vegetables.

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This young lady is so perfectly sweet in her appearance, movements and disposition. It is such a joy to watch her.

I like how the eggs in the dressing were cooked. Looks delicious. This could be an AMSR video

Thank you!

I love fresh herbs in my salad. I’m Appalachian and we make a similar salad dressing adding the bacon grease. I moved to Missouri several years ago and we are currently looking at homes in your neck of the woods 😀

Thanks! This salad looks great for summer. The dressing reminds me of English salad cream dressing. Yummy.

I always add chopped hard cooked eggs to my salads. With enough liquid (EVOO, vinegar, and water) the yolks incorporate into it making the dressing creamy. But I want to try this one because it looks delicious.

What a great video. Thank you for sharing. ❤

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Just found your channel in my feed and subscribed. My mouth is watering the crisp green lettuce straight from the garden and beautiful fresh eggs and home cured bacon with a made from scratch dressing. Delicious.😊

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I MUST try this asap!!! 😁

Looks Deeelicious! Well done. Nice production quality.

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In love with the clean audio

That is a beautiful salad !!!! Love this !!!

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What a wonderful idea to show a historic recipe in the setting of how it would have been made and how it would have eaten.

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That looks really good! I’m going to have to make some.

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I am so making that next Thanksgiving!! Yum!!!

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Fascinating.

The dressing seems kind of a mayo ancestor with almost the same ingredients. Nowadays it's uncooked lemon juice instead of vinegar, and I'm mixing first the egg yolk with the mustard before adding oil. However, it's worth trying this version with the vinegar. Thank you for this comforting video.