Mayonnaise Sauce

Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book, 1868This classic mayonnaise is bright and flavorful--everything you want in a vintage "salad dressing".

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"Yolks of two eggs; one lemon; salad oil; one spoonful of pepper; one spoonful of salt; same of moist sugar. A Mayonnaise is simply a French dressing for salad."
Mix the yolks of two or three eggs with the pepper and salt;
then work together with them the salad oil; mix it so thoroughly that it may appear a perfect cream.
Keep by your side a lemon cut in two.
As soon as the oil and eggs begin to mix, squeeze in the lemon juice, add more oil, drop by drop, then more lemon juice, till the mixture is finished. Add the oil by degrees, not all at once. Let it be a perfect cream before you use it.
Use a wooden spoon, and mix in a cool place.