Salade aurore is given in Escoffier’s 1903 Le Guide Culinaire. When we look at the ingredients, we can see that this is a possible forerunner to the Waldorf salad. Aurore is simpler and has rough-and-ready dressing. It is lovely though.
Salade aurore
Ingredients
- For the salad:
- 2 dessert apples, peeled and sliced
- Handful of walnut halves
- 1 romaine lettuce, separated into leaves
- For the dressing:
- 6 tbsp double cream
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tsp English mustard
- Juice of 2 lemons
- Salt and sugar to taste
Instructions
1
Arrange the salad ingredients nicely.
2
Shake the dressing ingredients together in a jar and pour over the salad.
3
Season a little and serve.
3 Comments
Donna
18/06/2021 at 5:28 pmI am making this Nigel!
Nigel Eastmond
18/06/2021 at 6:14 pmFab. It is very nice. We also have the original Waldorf salad on here, which is probably the Aurore’s offspring.
Nigel Eastmond
19/06/2021 at 1:58 pmHang on … Donna SINGLETON? Did you get married?