COUNTRY KITCHEN MAYONNAISE

Ingredients for one (1) pint.

• 3 egg yolks
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar (chilled)
• 1 3/4 cups olive or corn oil (chilled)
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• pinch of ground cayenne pepper

Measure dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Add unbeaten egg yolks and beat until yolks become creamy: then add teaspoon vinegar. Add a few drops of oil, beating in with a rotary egg beater or electric mixer. Continue adding oil by drops, beating thoroughly after each addition until about 6 teaspoons oil have been added and the mixture has thickened.

Beat in a little vinegar, then continue adding oil by teaspoons (beating after each addition) until 6 more teaspoons oil have been added and beaten in. As mixture thickens into a mayonnaise like substance, oil may be added in larger quantities, beating well after each addition.

When mixture becomes stiff, add a little vinegar to thin. Continue adding oil and vinegar, beating well until all has been used.

Hint: adding more than a few drops of oil at first causes mayonnaise NOT to thicken, but this thin mixture may be beaten into another egg yolk or two, a small amount at a time, and the rest of the oil and vinegar added in small amounts, beating after each when the new mixture has thickened up.

I have the best success using olive oil for the entire process, but have done will with corn oil if I use about one tablespoon of olive oil for the first few drops. Olive oil seems to congeal and "catch" the egg yolks better.

I have successfully made mayonnaise using this recipe through good times and poor times. Virtually all "store bought" mayonnaise contains soy oil (check the label for ingredients), causing abdominal upsets and often severe diarrhea in persons allergic to legumes (soy products)

I hope this easy recipe will help those of use who cannot tolerate soy products.

Try this "mayo making" now, as experience is the best teacher. Be ready for the day when you will hear that inevitable cry, "Mom, we're out of mayonnaise!" Your children will think that Mom is a wizard!

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