I mix the dressing on high speed in my blender. It's a delicious thick sweet dressing that really makes the salad unique. Everybody loves it!

Also if I'm not mistaken it had water chestnuts in it. However I could be wrong.

Yes it does have sliced water chestnuts in the salad also!! soooo gooood!!!

This is a fabulous salad...yes, includes water chestnuts which add a great crunch. We used to go to Betty's restaurant all the time - wonderful!

Only bean sprouts - no water chestnuts not in Timkos recipe.

Yeah, no water chestnuts. You could buy fresh beansprouts easier back then, that's where the texture comes from.

I thought the dressing also had celery seed, mustard seed and basil in it and brown sugar instead of white sugar?

The picture of this recipe shows alot of iceberg or romaine lettuce, and I've always had it made with a 50/50 mix of lettuce and spinach.

Never had it with waterchestnuts, but it sounds like a great idea!

Personally, I think the stupid-thick dressing could be thinned out a pinch...the super-thick stuff makes it hard to get a good distribution on the salad and you use more than you ought to. And, make sure the onion is super-fine.

My favorite salad by a long shot. :)

BETTY's DRESSING is my FAVORITE! A few Ingredients I noticed were left out of the Salad DRESSING recipe so I thought I would just ADD them directly from the Betty's Dressing Jar. CORN OIL, SUGAR, KETCHUP, GARLIC spice, CHOPPED ONION spice, White VINEGAR, WORCESTERSHIRE sauce, Ground up ANCHOVIES, TAMARIND.

I'm from Toledo and my mom was friends with Betty - you have strange ingredients that weren't in the original. This is an old school recipe - most people didn't even know what tamarind was when it was made. XD And anchovies are in the Worcestershire.

Also add chopped hard-boiled eggs to the salad, but the bean sprouts really makes the salad! I have fond memories of Timkos restaurant on the corner of Douglas and Sylvania in Toledo, Ohio!

I use to go to Timko's as well on the corner of Sylvania Ave and Douglas. Always had Betty salad. Absolutely the best!

I use to have a recipe similar to this, it was called just French dressing and the difference was that it called for dried chopped onions. I lost the recipe and am going to try this. We loved it!

I worked at Teledyne in Toledo. We would have lunch at Timko's soup and such a couple times a week. Little did we know she would become so famous!

She was a great lady.