Sweet French Dressing

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper and paprika mixed
• claret vinegar
• 20 drops tabasco
• 20 drops onion juice
• 1/2 lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon brandy, rum or whiskey
• 1/4 pint salad oil

Instructions

1. Mix well a scant teaspoonful of granulated sugar, the same of dry mustard, half a teaspoonful salt, as much black pepper and paprika mixed.
2. Put in the bottom of a deep small bowl, and stir for two minutes.
3. Wet with claret vinegar, adding it gradually, and stirring smooth. Make as thick as cream.
4. Add twenty drops tabasco, twenty drops onion juice, the strained juice of half a lemon, and half a teaspoonful of brandy, rum or whiskey.
5. Mix well, then add, tablespoonful at a time, a gill of salad oil, stirring hard between spoonfuls.
6. Put in more vinegar, more oil — the seasoning suffices for half a pint of dressing.
7. Stir till it thickens — it should be like an emulsion when poured upon the salad.
8. Keep on ice. The oil and vinegar will separate, but the dressing can be brought back by stirring hard.