Dracula Salad - Toothsome, Undead Veggies?

'An Aberdeenshire church can stake a claim to have been indirectly funded by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as it emerged that the world famous author’s wife raised funds to help renovate it with a cooking recipe inspired by the novel.'

Yes, but...

Salad?



'Florence Balcombe contributed the recipe for the “Dracula Salad” to a pamphlet sold in aid of Cruden Parish Church shortly after her husband Bram Stoker died in 1912.'

The piece is also interesting because of the link drawn - quite reasonably - between Christian conceptions of Christ as blood sacrifice and the vampire taking life via blood and then 'converting' a victim. As a minor note, the late book dealer Ken Cowley based an entire story on this parallel - with a twist ending I will not reveal here. 'Dracula Reflects' - worth seeking out.