Salid Dressing, Peach or Apple Pudding - Family Recipe Friday

The recipe for Salid (sic) Dressing calls for Eagle Brand Milk, generally known as Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk. I wondered if that could help me date this recipe book. It can't. The company's website tells me that Eagle Brand Milk was first introduced in 1856 -- and my grandmother wasn't born until 1893. Eagle Milk had been around almost 40 years by the time she was born.

This recipe also calls for a raw egg, an ingredient most of us would shun these days for fear of salmonella. The ingredients suggest to me that this is a mayonnaise type dressing that would be great for cole slaw (if only the egg were cooked). Maybe salmonella was less of a problem a hundred years ago, before egg factories.

Salid Dressing.
1 can Eagle Brand
Milk.
1 egg.
1 teaspoon Must-
ard--Dry.
1/2 cup Vinegar.
Beat egg well
add Mustard &
salt. Mix well &
then add Eagle
Brand Milk &
then the Vinegar.


Peach or Apple Pudding
1 tablespoon butter
1 egg.
1/2 cup Suagr.
1/2 cup Sweet Milk.
1 cup flour
Fill a buttered dish
with sliced apples or
peaches & pour over
the top a batter
made of the above ingredients.

This is another page from my grandmother Emma Bickerstaff Meinzen's Webster's Spelling Tablet, probably a tablet with pages for taking spelling tests, unused and left by one of her daughters.

--Nancy.

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