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Yorkshire Ploughman's Salad Sauce

Sauces and Spicery
Historic

Treacle and vinegar, with a little black pepper, "eat the sauce with lettuces shred small" (Acton 1845)

See: Ploughboys


Original Receipt from 'Modern Cookery for Private Families' by Eliza Acton (Acton 1845);

YORKSHIRE PLOUGHMAN'S SALAD.
Mix treacle and vinegar, in the proportion of one tablespoonful of the first to two of the latter: add a little black pepper, and eat the sauce with lettuces shred small (with an intermixture of young onions when they are liked).




Some ploughmen having lunch
Source: Unknown





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