Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

  • About

As with French dressing, seasoning mayonnaise is a matter of individual taste. I personally like sugar in mine, and I don’t like making mayonnaise with all olive oil as I find the flavour of olive oil alone too obtrusive. This is how I make mayonnaise, but change the amounts of the ingredients to suit your own tastes.

Ingredients

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp salt
  • tsp mustard powder

Method

Put the egg yolks, salt, mustard, pepper and sugar into a blender or food processor. Blend together. With the motor running, slowly add the oils, in a very thin trickle. As the mayonnaise thickens, add the oil in a slightly faster trickle, until it is all used up. Add 2 tbsp of the vinegar, then taste and add more if you like. Keep in a covered bowl in the fridge.

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