When was thousand island dressing invented

It is also typically spiced with paprika and cayenne. Although a classic French remoulade was indeed used as a dressing for salads, really, there is not much similarity between a remoulade and Thousand Island Dressing besides the mayonnaise, and I doubt that the inventor had a fancy French sauce in mind when he or she first made it, although its possible. Some people call any mayonnaise-based sauce a remoulade. The original recipe, as far as can be determined, was a mixture of mayonnaise, ketchup, chili sauce, sweet pickle relish, pimiento stuffed green olives, green onions, and chopped hard-boiled egg.

Some versions of the original recipe leave out the ketchup, while others leave out the chili sauce. It is doubtful the first recipe was ever recorded.

Thousand Island is often used on Reuben sandwiches, as an alternative to Russian dressing. Thinking on his feet, he mixed together what he could find in the galley—mayonnaise, ketchup, pickle relish, and Worcestershire sauce—and Thousand Island dressing was born.

There's also a second, less romantic theory explaining the dressing's inception. This story attributes the recipe to Sophia Lalonde, an innkeeper and the wife of a fishing guide in Clayton, New York, near the Thousand Islands. Sophia would make food for the tourists her husband took on fishing trips, serving her special dressing with the salads and sandwiches. Silent movie actress May Irwin reportedly tasted the condiment on a vacation to the area and liked it enough to ask for the recipe.

As time passed, Miss Irwin and her husband purchased a summer home on nearby Grindstone Island which still stands in sight of Clayton, where they spent many summer vacations. Later they purchased a farm on the mainland east of Clayton, near Spicer Bay. The Herald Hotel changed hands in , on its 50th anniversary, and again on its 75th anniversary in , when it was purchased by Allen and Susan Benas, who renamed it the Thousand Islands Inn. Today Mrs. Be polite. Inappropriate posts or posts containing offsite links, images, GIFs, inappropriate language, or memes may be removed by the moderator.

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