{"id":325,"slug":"betty-s-salad","title":"Betty's Salad","description":"Betty's Salad is a regional, Midwest salad created by Betty Timko and featured as a menu item at her restaurant, Timko's Soup and Such, in Toledo, Ohio. The restaurant was located in a brick building at the northwest corner of Sylvania and Douglas Roads of the Devaux Village strip mall in West Toledo. After Betty died, the restaurant closed, and her signature salad dressing is still produced and distributed at regional grocery stores.","ingredients_raw":["½ package fresh spinach","6 hard boiled eggs, sliced","1 can bean sprouts, drained","1–2 cans water chestnuts, drained and sliced (optional, depending on the recipe you follow)","1 pound fried bacon, crumbled","1 cup salad oil","¾ cup white granulated sugar","¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste","⅓ cup catsup","¼ cup white vinegar","1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce","1 small to medium-sized onion, minced"],"ingredients_norm":["fresh spinach","hard boiled egg","bean sprout","water chestnut","fried bacon crumbled","salad oil","white granulated sugar","salt","catsup","white vinegar","worcestershire sauce","to medium sized onion"],"steps":["Layer the salad ingredients in the order listed.","Mix all the dressing ingredients in blender. Pour over salad.","Store salad in fridge."],"categories":["Salad recipes","Recipes for salad","Midwestern U.S. recipes","Recipes using bacon","Recipes using hard-cooked egg","Recipes using spinach","Recipes using bean sprout","Recipes using granulated sugar"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Betty's_Salad","source_ref":"4518110","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Betty's_Salad&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"a3147e1e3fb87a3fe85376cce8c753904339cc243adda765b18fc8485e6b382c","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:35:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/betty-s-salad"}