The Brown Derby Salad Dressing

  Cobb Salad: One of the most famous dishes in American culinary history was created on the spur of the moment.

     Cobb salad was created at the Brown Derby in Hollywood. Here's the official story ... or legend, if you will ... as recorded by the Brown Derby itself:

    "One night in 1937, Bob Cobb, then owner of The Brown Derby, prowled hungrily in his restaurant's kitchen for a snack. Opening the huge refrigerator, he pulled out this and that: a head of lettuce, an avocado, some romaine, watercress, tomatoes, some cold breast of chicken, a hard-boiled egg, chives, cheese and some old-fashioned French dressing. He started chopping. Added some crisp bacon -- swiped from a busy chef.
    "The Cobb salad was born. It was so good, Sid Grauman (Grauman's Chinese Theatre), who was with Cobb that midnight, asked the next day for a 'Cobb Salad.' It was so good that it was put on the menu.
     "Cobb's midnight invention became an overnight sensation with Derby customers, people like movie mogul Jack Warner, who regularly dispatched his chauffeur to pick up a carton of the mouth-watering salad."

   
The original Cobb Salad Dressing AKA as Brown Derby
Makes 1 1/2 cups

1/4 cup water
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 teas sugar
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon dry English mustard
1 small garlic clove finely minced
1/4 cup full flavored olive oil
3/4 cup salad oil

Blend all ingredients together, except oils.  add olive oil and salad oil mixing well to emulsify ...

shake well before mixing it with the salad