Name: Sardine Dressing
Ingredients: 3 hard-boiled egg yolks; 3 sardines; ½ pint mayonnaise dressing

Sardine Dressing

Ingredients

3 hard-boiled egg yolks
3 sardines
½ pint mayonnaise dressing

Directions

Mash the hard-boiled yolks until smooth.
Remove the skin and bones from the sardines and pound them to a pulp.
Add the mashed yolks to the sardine pulp and mix well.
Beat the mixture into the mayonnaise 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: Mashed smooth, they add richness and body to the dressing.
Sardines: Pounded to a pulp, they supply the dish's savoury, fishy flavour.
Mayonnaise dressing: Its emulsified fat carries the mixture and gives it a creamy, spreadable texture.

“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.