Salad Cream

Name: Salad Cream
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: a pinch of cayenne pepper; salt and freshly ground white pepper; 2 hard-boiled eggs; juice of ½ lemon; 5 fl oz (150 ml) double cream; ¼ teaspoon caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Shaun Hill's Cookery Book

By Shaun Hill

Published 1990

About

No connection with anything commercially bottled. This type of dressing will make a refreshing change from mayonnaise or other oil-based dressings.

Ingredients

2 hard-boiled eggs
salt and freshly ground white pepper
a pinch of cayenne pepper

Sauce
Vegetarian
Raw
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Separate the hard-boiled eggs into yolk and white. Chop the white and keep to garnish the finished sauce.
Make a paste of the yolks with the seasonings, a teaspoonful of water and the sugar.
Incorporate the cream slowly by trickling it into the egg yolks, stirring constantly.
Add lemon juice. Pour into a sauce boat and decorate with the chopped