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Whipped Cream Salad Dressing

A creamy salad dressing made with egg yolks, olive oil, butter, lemon, mustard, salt, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Whipped Cream Salad Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. In a saucepan, combine egg yolks, olive oil, melted butter, lemon juice, dry mustard, and salt.

  2. Cook over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly.

  3. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.

Finish

  1. Once cooled, fold in the whipped cream gently.

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.

Explore the science

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. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Lemon + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,816 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Emulsify the oil and butter and thicken the dressing as they cook gently.
Olive oil
Adds fat and richness, and helps form a smooth emulsion with the yolks.
Melted butter
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy mouthfeel to the dressing.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the fat.
Whipped cream
Lightens the texture and makes the dressing airy and creamy.

The step that matters

Cook over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Egg yolks thicken when heated, but too much heat or no stirring can scramble them. Gentle, constant stirring keeps the mixture smooth and evenly thickened.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, olive, butter, lemon, cream):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, olive, butter, lemon, cream. 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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