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Rem0lade Sauce

A vinaigrette dressing made with olive oil, vinegar, mustard, egg yolks, shallots, herbs, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 859 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Rem0lade Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a bowl, mix equal quantities of olive oil and vinegar.

  2. Add the mustard and raw egg yolks, then mix well.

  3. Stir in the shallots and savory herbs.

  4. Season with pepper and salt to taste.

Serve

  1. Use as a salad dressing or sauce for cold meat.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Olive oil
Forms the main body of the sauce and carries richness and mouthfeel.
Vinegar
Adds sharpness that balances the oil and brightens the flavor.
Mustard
Helps emulsify the oil and vinegar and adds a sharp, pungent note.
Raw egg yolks
Act as an emulsifier, helping the oil and vinegar bind into a thick sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the oil and vinegar together with the egg yolks and mustard. Egg yolk lecithin and mustard help emulsify oil and vinegar, which otherwise separate. Mixing well until smooth and thickened keeps the sauce from breaking into layers.

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, vinegar, mustard, egg, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Horseradishfits about as well
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, vinegar, mustard, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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