Why it works: Egg and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 39% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes. The science ↓
Salad Dressing
Ingredients
Directions
Mash the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs in a bowl.
Add the salad oil and Worcestershire sauce (or mushroom ketchup).
Mix until smooth and well combined.
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.
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Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together10,895 recipes
Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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What each ingredient does
- Hard-boiled egg yolks
- Provide the rich base that thickens and gives the dressing its creamy body.
- Salad oil
- Adds fat that emulsifies with the yolks, giving a smooth, silky texture.
- Worcestershire sauce or mushroom ketchup
- Adds savory, tangy depth that balances the richness of the yolks and oil.
The step that matters
Mix until smooth and well combined. Oil must be worked evenly into the mashed yolks so it forms a stable emulsion; if it is poorly combined, the dressing can look greasy or separate.
“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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