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creamy summer salad dressing

Recipe by
Jan Carkin
Stoneboro, PA

My family has made this for three generations and I’m teaching to the fourth. We love this on our fresh summer lettuces and cucumbers. It is the basic year-around dressing for my Empty Bowl Coleslaw. It’s called that because you never have any leftover!!

yield 2 cups of greens or cucumbers
prep time 5 Min
method No-Cook or Other

Ingredients For creamy summer salad dressing

  • 1/4 cup
    mayonnaise (not salad dressing)
  • 1/2 Tbsp
    sugar
  • 1/2 Tbsp
    apple cider vinegar
  • To taste
    salt and pepper

How To Make creamy summer salad dressing

  • 1
    Combine all ingredients in a bowl and whisk. Or, even better, place in a jar with a tight lid and shake!
  • 2
    Taste.
  • 3
    Uses: Coleslaw dressing; fresh lettuce and onion salad or even a cucumber onion salad
  • 4
    **Great addition is garlic!! Replace the salt with garlic salt or add chopped garlic. Great on a BLT salad with garlic croutons!
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