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White Mayonnaise

A light mayonnaise made by adding whipped cream or egg white to mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

White Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add ½ cup very stiff whipped cream to the mayonnaise before serving.

  2. Alternatively, add the white of ½ egg, whipped very stiff.

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. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Forms the creamy base, providing fat and a rich, smooth body.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and airy volume through trapped air in its fat network.
Egg white
Whipped to a stiff foam, it lightens the texture and adds volume.

The step that matters

Add the whipped cream or egg white gently. Stiffly whipped cream and egg white hold air in their structure. Overmixing or vigorous stirring deflates them, leaving the sauce dense and less airy.

“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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