Salad cream

Name: Salad cream
Ingredients: 2 hard-boiled eggs; 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard; 1 tablespoon caster sugar; Salt freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of cayenne or a dash of Tabasco sauce; Salt freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of cayenne or a dash of Tabasco sauce; Salt freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of cayenne or a dash of Tabasco sauce; Salt freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of cayenne or a dash of Tabasco sauce; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 150 ml double cream

Preparation info

For
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Salt is Essential

By Shaun Hill

Published 2016

About

Salad cream always meant either Heinz or Crosse & Blackwell’s oversweet commercial product. Properly made, however, it is a revelation. Serve with a salad made from Webbs or Cos lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, cucumber, watercress, hard-boiled eggs and spring onions.

Ingredients

2 hard-boiled eggs
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon

Vegetarian

Method

Mash the egg yolks with 1 teaspoon of cold water, then incorporate the mustard, sugar, seasonings and lemon juice.

Trickle the cream into this paste while stirring continuously. Taste and add more lemon, salt or sugar as needed. I’m too mean to throw away the egg whites from the salad cream ingredients, so slice them and mix them into the salad ingredients mentioned in the introduction