Rainwater Dressing

Submitted by Theresa P

"This fabulous recipe comes from a girl I do catering with. It is her signature salad dressing and is requested all the time. Enjoy this with a summer salad of lettuce, cucumber, red onion, cherry tomatoes and some nice garlic croutons! Delicious"

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 3 cups
• Serves: 48

ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons grated onions
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons dry mustard
• 1 minced garlic clove
• 3⁄4 cup cider vinegar
• 1 cup light olive oil (the kind that says "best for salad dressing and flavoring" on the label. It is lighter in color and)
• 1 tablespoon poppy seed

directions

1. In a mixing bowl, combine first 6 ingredients and beat with electric mixer for about 4 minutes to dissolve sugar.
2. Add the oil and poppy seeds and continue beating for about 10 minutes more.
3. Pour dressing into a pitcher or large jar.
4. Will keep for several days in refrigerator.
5. Just stir well to serve.

Reviews

[Merlot]

This is a wonderful salad dressing that I served on baby spinach, real bacon bits and shredded cheddar cheese. This sweet dressing went perfectly with it. A real winner, thanks so much Theresa P.

 

[sugarpea]

Truly outstanding dressing. Sweet, thick, creamy and I think it should be called Sunshine Dressing because of its yellow color. I have only a hand mixer and didn't want to stand there and use it for 10 minutes so I tried using the blender. It didn't dissolve the sugar so use the mixer as directed. The second time I made this dressing I used equal-measure Splenda and heated it and the vinegar to dissolve it. That sacrificed the beautiful yellow color and the thickness but the flavor was still superb. Third time I didn't heat the Splenda, just blended all the ingredients. That preserved some of the color. Can't say enough good things about this recipe. Gets my highest recommendation for a sweet salad dressing. Twenty stars!

 

[Whitney R.]

This is perfectly lovely. I know it's going to become a standby at our house. I actually didn't have poppy seeds the first time I made it, so I substituted sesame seeds and it turned out quite nice. We had it over spring greens, roasted beets and gorgonzola. Having it again tonight!

 

[CHEF GRPA]

I thought I had submitted my review of this! I have this 4 or 5 times as written. After a search for a real good recipes to do. And with resulted in other similar recipes, I decided I wanted to create something unique a great base recipe and easy to modify depending on your tastes.. It may be a stretch to call my creation, but the result was a meal the whole family will liked. MY was Not better, not worse, just different! I've will added this to my recipe book "AS IS" and with my additions TOO. I have two way to do it!! THANK YOU!! I can do the happy food dance!! NOW !! 7 Stars NO! Sugar pea is right, Twenty Stars!, I think yours is better. BY FAR

 

[FrVanilla]

I really like this dressing, but I found it more than sweet enough with half the sugar. I will make it again.