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Mayonnaise without Egg

From A practical cook and text book for general use, 1896

This serves as a substitute for egg-made mayonnaise.

Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from A practical cook and text book for general use (1896) by Ellen Goodell Smith, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mayonnaise without Egg. Prepare one heaping tea- spoonful of bromose by dissolving it carefully in an equal quantity of tepid water. Then work into it a level table- spoonful of salad oil and five drops of the extract of the soja bean. Take a teaspoonf ul of poland starch (common old fashioned starch) dissolve in a little cold water and then pour over it a half pint of boiling water. Stir into this the bromose, etc., and add the juice of half a lemon

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