English Salad Sauce

Name: English Salad Sauce
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: salt 1 small saltspoonful; pounded sugar 1 large saltspoonful; cayenne a few grains; cayenne a few grains; hard-boiled eggs 2; sweet cream ¼ pint; cold water 1 teaspoonful; ordinary vinegar 1 tablespoonful; chilli vinegar 1 tablespoonful

Miss Eliza Acton 1845

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

hard-boiled eggs 2
salt 1 small saltspoonful
pounded sugar 1</

Europe
United Kingdom
Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

The first essential for a smooth well-made English salad dressing is to have the yolks of the eggs used for it sufficiently hard to be reduced easily to a perfect paste. They should be boiled at least 15 minutes, and should have become quite cold before they are taken from the shells. They should also be well covered with water when they are cooked, or s