eac@drux3.UUCP (CveticEA) (03/13/84)
I have seen two completely different dressings both of which were called
Russian dressing. One is like a tangy, thick, and sweet tomato based
dressing (no mayonaise) and the other is very similar to Thousand Island
dressing. The main difference between the latter and Thousand Island I
believe is that Thousand Island has pickle relish in it. We used to
make creamy French dressing that was very similar to the latter Russian
dressing by mixing mayonaise and ketchup. We would turn it into Thousand
Island by adding pickle relish. Another interesting variation on this
theme is to make a dressing from mayonaise and taco sauce. All of
these dressings are related and this is probably the source of the
confusion.
Betsy Cvetic
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