Thousand Iceland Dressing

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Thousand Iceland Dressing
Leaf salad with a thousand island dressing

The Thousand-Iceland dressing (German: Thousand Island dressing ) is a classic salad dressing of the Cuisine of the United States . It owes its name to the Thousand Islands archipelago at the outflow of Lake Ontario in the border region between Canada and the United States. The dressing is known in Europe under its American name and is also available as a finished product.

preparation

The traditional basis of the dressing is a mayonnaise , which is supplemented with finely chopped red and green peppers and seasoned with paprika powder and a chilli sauce (for example Tabasco ).

In variations, ketchup or tomato paste , chopped pickles , onions , olives or hard-boiled eggs are also added. In American kitchens, the dressing is also served with sandwiches and hamburgers , but often under other names such as McDonald’s “Special Sauce”.

history

Thousand Island dressing has been documented in writing in the United States since 1912. However, the salad dressing is older. There are several, partly contradicting reports about their creation. She became known through the New York Hotel Waldorf-Astoria .

One possible inventor of the Thousand Island Dressing is Sophia LaLonde from Clayton , a small town on the outskirts of the Thousand Islands in the state of New York , which used to feed the participants on the fishing trips organized by her husband. She is said to have passed on the recipe for the salad dressing to a local hotel that is now called the “Thousand Islands Inn”, from where it was possibly through the mediation of actress May Irwin to George C. Boldt , the Prussian builder of the Boldt Castles and then hotel manager of the Waldorf-Astoria, and thanks to the legendary Maître d'hôtel Oscar Tschirky was added to the repertoire of the Waldorf-Astoria. Oscar Tschirky himself or Theo Rooms, the chef at the Blackstone and Drake Hotel in Chicago , could also be considered as inventors of the sauce .

Variation of Russian dressing

A Thousand Island Dressing, which was supplemented with chopped beetroot , parsley , chives and a little caviar , is called Russian Dressing in the kitchen language .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Hering, Walter Bickel (Ed.): Herings Lexicon of the Kitchen. 18th, revised edition. Dr. Pfanneberg, Giessen 1978, ISBN 3-8057-0218-3 , p. 621.
  2. ↑ Alt.mcdonalds FAQ, What is the special sauce? (German translation), accessed February 6, 2010.
  3. ↑ Thousand Islands: Thousand Islands Dressing. Historical newspaper reports, accessed February 4, 2010.
  4. ^ History of the Thousand Island Dressing ( Memento from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 4, 2010.
  5. ^ The Origin of 1000 Islands Dressing , accessed February 4, 2010.
  6. ^ Thousand Island dressing , The Food Timeline , accessed February 4, 2010.