By Kare, / Pure class, baby. This post is pure class.
Today I’m mixing mayonnaise and ketchup and calling it a recipe. Except, actually, I actually do consider this Homemade Thousand Island Dressing a fairly legitimate recipe. And there are a few other things in there too. And it’s really, really (really) tasty.
It’s homemade thousand island dressing. Thousand island, you’ve come a long way, baby. I mean, from the store-bought version, that is. It is so easy to make thousand island dressing that I’m sort of kicking myself for ever buying it ready-made. Five minutes and a little chilling time in the fridge, and you’ve got a tangy, zesty, “secret” sauce that’s equally at home on a piled-high as it is atop a nice, simple bed of greens. It’s far less expensive than store-bought and it tastes, well, a thousand times better.
I don’t know why they call it thousand island, but I could probably come up with at least 1,000 ways to enjoy this stuff. You know I had to Google it as soon as found myself typing that I didn’t know the origin of the name. Turns out “the name presumably comes from the Thousand Islands between the United States and Canada in the St. Lawrence River. In the Thousand Islands area, one common version of the dressing’s origins says that a fishing guide’s wife, Sophia LaLonde, made the condiment as part of her husband George’s shore dinner.” Thanks,! And thanks, Sophia.
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Note: I’ve recently updated this recipe to include an option for homemade vegan thousand island dressing. It’s a pretty easy swap – just use Vegenaise or another fave vegan mayonnaise instead of the classic mayo. Here’s a video that shows you how to make homemade thousand island dressing either way, or scroll on down for the recipe! The Thousand Island Dressing comes from the area you mentioned, but you may not know that it was once a very posh summer and winter holiday area from 1880 to about 1930. I just spent a night there, camping at a State Park on Lake Ontario near the the Thousand Islands, just where it joins the St. Lawrence river. I found out all the history at a museum in Clayton and fishing excursions with picnics really were very popular in the heyday.
In certain shops there you can buy the “real” dressing, but I think your homemade one would be fine. I have a.: Comment. They call it Thousand Islands Dressing – originally known as Sophia’s Sauce because the recipe originated in the Thousand Islands. This unique and once the play ground of the very rich during the gilded age was and is a fisherman’s paradise. Today, although and nonetheless beautiful, and still a vacation destination, like most of upstate New York, the evidence of poverty can not be denied. A couple of the highlights of the region from a bygone era are, Bolt Castle and Singer Castle. I have a copy of the original, hand written recipe.
Yours is close, but you’ve added some embellishments not in the original snd omitted three ingredients. I have a.: Comment.