Tartar Sauce

Ingredients

• the yolk of a cold, hard-boiled egg
• the yolks of two raw eggs
• a pint of good salad oil
• a teaspoonful of gherkins, chopped fine
• half a dozen chopped capers
• the same of chopped shallots
• two teaspoonfuls of French mustard
• a dust of cayenne pepper
• a tiny bit of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Rub the hard-boiled yolk through a sieve, add raw yolks, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Gradually add salad oil while stirring until thick.

3. 3

   Add vinegar, gherkins, capers, shallots, mustard, cayenne, sugar, and more salt if needed.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

the yolk of a cold, hard-boiled egg through a hair- sieve into a basin, and add the 3'olks of two raw eggs, with a little salt and pepper. Most carefully mix together with a wooden spoon ; have a pint of good salad oil — you onust have oil in this case — in a bottle ; hold it in your left hand over the basin, dropping it in very, very gradually, and with your right continue stirring till the mixture becomes a thick paste; then moisten with a little tarragon vinegar, still stirring, stirring, stirring. Then more oil, and so forth, SA UCES. 3-40 till you have used all the oil ; still keeping the sauce rather thick, but not stiff. Add a teaspoonful of gherkins, chopped fine, half a dozen chopped capers, the same of chopped shallots and parsley ; two teaspoonfuls of French mustard of the lightest colour, a dust of cayenne pepper, a tiny bit of sugar, and more salt if required. As for salt and pepper, I conceive it to be impertinent and useless to prescribe the exact quantities to be used. A cook who knoAvs her business is quite aware of what is meant by a " dust " or a " pinch " of this or that condiment. If she does not know her business, let her go and excel somewhere else. I need only say that tartar sauce

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