This is a handwritten recipe card from a large collection of old recipes, date unknown. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy which you can click to view a large size if you like.
L & H Inn Dressing
1 t salt
1 t (scant) pepper
1 t ” paprika
1/2 t dry mustard
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1 can Campbell cond. tomato soup
1 C Wesson oil
3/4 c sugar
1/2 c vinegar
1 medium onion (grated)
Mix ingredients together and shake well. Makes about 2 pts.
Fry bacon (cut in bits) and add grease (I do not) and bacon to the dressing. Add bacon to desired amount of dressing to make salad.
More Recipes For You To Enjoy:I have this same recipe, but it calls for chili sauce, not soup. I have also made it with Heinz 57 and it is my favorite that way. From what I heard, the L and H Inn was a restaraunt in South Bend Indiana. This was their house dressing.
This recipe is from the Lincoln Highway Inn, which was on the East end of Lincolnway ( ie:Lincoln Highway) in Mishawaka, Indiana.
I was looking for my copy of this recipe but couldn’t find it. The LH (or L&H) Inn was in South Bend. We used to go there for dinner about 50-60 years ago. I don’t remember much about it except it was a roadside restaurant and this was the house dressing. OUr family has made this recipe – with tomato soup – for years.
This salad dressing was from the Lincoln Hwy Inn, South Bend, IN. A very popular restaurant in the area in the 60’s – 70’s. The recipe was passed around my family at the time and a favorite of ours. Glad I found it as I lost the copy I had.
No, it wasn’t L&H Inn, it was LH Inn, short for Lincoln Highway Inn. And, no, it wasn’t located in South Bend, IN. It was located in Mishawaka, IN.
So excited I found this recipe…my family’s favorite dressing many years ago..I lost the copy.
actually… the LH Inn was located on the northwest corner of Lincoln Highway and Capital Ave, in MISHAWAKA, IN. the owners were family friendsof mine growing up.
I have a recipe from the chef of L&H Inn. It is a bit different
My mother had a card and the handwriting is identical! We made ours w chili sauce
The perfect note for L.
When it comes to recipes I know exactly where to find the cure for disasters. All good things from chocolate mint brownies to simple homemade pastas. Even my kids could read them.
I am now 60 years old and my mother raved about this dressing. I don’t know how she got the recipe years ago, but she made it and our whole family loved it! My mother was born and raised in South Bend, IN. Her name was Virginia Chartier, married Richard Krauss, became Virginia Krauss. Nice to know others are enjoying this recipe!