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Salad Dressing Wititout Oid

A creamy, oil-free dressing made from mashed egg yolks, mustard, sugar, salt, pepper, cream, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,067 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Salad Dressing Wititout Oid

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Hard boil the egg yolks for 30 minutes, then mash them in a bowl.

  2. Add mustard, sugar, salt, and pepper to the mashed yolks.

  3. Stir in the cream and vinegar until well combined.

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 + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Mashed yolks form the thick, emulsifying base that gives the dressing body.
Sour or sweet cream
Supplies fat and moisture, giving the dressing a creamy, smooth texture.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness and richness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that rounds out the sharpness of the vinegar and mustard.

The step that matters

Stir in the cream and vinegar until well combined. Cream and vinegar must be fully mixed into the mashed yolk base so the dressing stays smooth and uniform rather than separating into thin liquid and lumps.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Horseradishfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, pepper, cream, vinegar. 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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