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Cream Dressing- Eor Salads

A creamy dressing made with hard‑boiled egg yolks, thick cream, malt vinegar, mustard, sugar, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,067 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Cream Dressing- Eor Salads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the egg yolks in a bowl.

  2. Add the mustard, salt, sugar, and pepper, and mix well.

  3. Gradually mix in the cream.

  4. Finally, add the malt vinegar and stir until combined.

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. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled egg yolks
Emulsify the dressing and give it a thick, rich body.
Thick cream
Adds moisture and a smooth, creamy texture to the dressing.
Malt vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances its richness.
Mixed mustard
Adds sharp flavour and helps stabilise the emulsion.

The step that matters

Gradually mix in the cream.. Adding cream slowly lets the mashed yolk absorb it evenly, forming a smooth emulsion. Dumping it in at once can leave the dressing thin, lumpy, or separated.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, malt, vinegar, sugar, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Potatofits less well
  4. Cucumberfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, malt, vinegar, sugar, pepper. 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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