Where for the first time began to prepare a vinaigrette. The origin of the word "vinaigrette"
Vinaigrette was the first Russian salad, before it was in the traditional Russian cuisine, there were no salads.
How did the word "vinaigrette" appear?
But the origin of the word "vinaigrette" is not at allRussian, and French - "vinaigrette", where "vin" is wine, and "aigre" is sour, together "vinaigre" is a vinegar sauce, which is not at all similar to a modern salad. In general, the original French word meant the preparation of different sauces based on vinegar and vegetable oil. In French restaurants you can meet such a salad, only under the name "salad russe", that the French have a meaning of confusion, hash. Here is such a change of concepts, and even more interesting is that the vinaigrette itself, the origin of the word and the composition - everything came from Scandinavia.
The Legend of the Vinaigrette
And in Russia, mention of vinaigrette appeared in the XIXcentury. As the legend says, during the reign of Alexander the First in the kitchen, the king worked French chef Antoine Carem. Seeing how the Russian chefs make a strange salad, just mixing all the ingredients and then pouring all the vinegar, he asked in surprise "Vinaigre?" (In French "vinegar"), and they answered: "Vinaigrette! The vinaigrette!". So in the royal menu there was a new dish, and then it passed into the people and became a snack, without which there was not a single feast. The recipe for salad since that time has become much simpler, but there are still cooking secrets. For example, if you want all the ingredients to have their own natural color, then the beets need to be mixed in the oil separately, and if you want all the ingredients to turn pink from the beet juice, you need to mix everything together.
The recipe for the most popular Russian salad
Vinaigrette, probably the most popular salad inRussia and the USSR, and he was considered an original Russian dish. Probably, people simply did not know that the vinaigrette - the origin of the salad and the way of cooking - were once borrowed in other countries. In the Soviet Union, this salad was a New Year's dish, along with olivier, but the recipes for cooking were very different.
The most famous recipe for this appetizer is the boiledpotatoes, beets, carrots, sliced onions and pickles, all in equal quantities. Previously, the same composition, only without beet, used for okroshki. Also some housewives add sauerkraut, soaked herring in milk, green canned peas to the salad. William Pokhlebkin, a well-known culinary publicist, also could not know what vinaigrette is, the origin of the word, and from where the salad comes from. So, he said that in a native Russian salad there should be a boiled egg. It should be noted that this salad is a perishable dish, due to pickled cucumbers and a dressing of oil and vinegar. The use of it already after a day can cause indigestion.
Vinaigrette or Salmagundi?
Interestingly, in the English cookbook 1845a salad similar to a vinaigrette, which was called "Swedish herring salad", was also discovered. In addition to all the ingredients of Russian vinaigrette, a grated apple was added there. The most interesting is that if we came from Scandinavia itself vinaigrette, the origin of the word went from the French name, then to England the same salad, it turns out, came from Sweden.
And in France, for example, similar to our saladappeared in the 17th century. And not anyone started to cook it, but pirates and hunters. Any meat (turtle, duck or pigeon) was used, then marinated in vinegar or wine, spices added, fish could also be added, then everything turned into a hodge-podge, greens and vegetables added, Salmagundi salad called.
Thus, the vinaigrette itself, the origin of the wordand the fact that it is seasoned with vinegar, originates in France and Scandinavia, but the salad can in fact be called world salad. It's all about the simplicity of the components and the availability of those in almost all European countries.
