To Color Mayonnaise
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the spinach
Boil the spinach until tender.
Drain, cool, and squeeze the spinach dry.
Make the mixture
Mash the spinach well and mix in the mayonnaise.
Pass the mixture through a fine sieve and combine it with the dressing.
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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What each ingredient does
- Spinach
- Provides the main bulk, earthy flavor and green color, and is mashed to a smooth texture.
- Mayonnaise
- Adds fat and creaminess, giving the mashed spinach a smooth, rich body and binding it together.
The step that matters
Squeeze the spinach dry. Cooked spinach holds a lot of water. Leftover moisture thins the mayonnaise and makes the mixture loose and watery, so squeezing it well keeps the texture thick.
“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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