Pat's Famous and Healthful Low-cholesterol Salad Dressing

Pat Piper of Sonoma, California, sends us her recipe rather assertively called Pat's Famous and Healthful Low Cholesterol Salad Dressing. She first tried a balancing act of 1 to 1 (equal parts oil and vinegar). But overly tart results pushed her back to traditional ratios of 3 (oil) to 1 (vinegar). She then elected to combine predominantly monounsaturated olive oil with three significantly polyunsaturated vegetable oils, hoping to bring better nutrition by way of variety.