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Sardine Dressing

A dressing made by pounding sardines and hard‑boiled egg yolks together until smooth, then mixed with a chosen dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Sardine Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the yolks of the hard boiled eggs and the sardines in a mortar until perfectly smooth.

  2. Combine this mixture with your choice of dressing for an excellent fish dressing.

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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What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy body to the dressing.
Sardines
Contribute savory, fishy flavour that gives the dressing its character.

The step that matters

Pounding until perfectly smooth. Yolks and sardine flesh must be fully broken down into a uniform paste; lumps left in the mixture will feel grainy in the finished dressing and won't blend evenly with the other dressing.

“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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