Homemade Mayonnaise!

After going to the store yesterday, and finding out today that we just used the last of our mayonnaise (we prefer Hellmans for taste), I was quite reluctant to dash back to the store to make an additional purchase. SO, I brought out my good ol' trusty "Cream of the West Cook Book", and sure enough, found a recipe for mayonnaise:


Mayonnaise

In a small mixer bowl, combine
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
dash of cayenne
Using electric mixer, beat in, drop by drop
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Beat in
1 tablespoon vinegar
Then very gradually beat in
1 cup vegetable oil
When thick, alternate oil additions with few drops of
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Store and chill in tightly covered jar.
Makes 1 3/4 cups.

How "I" made it:
-I used my magic bullet
-I used the whole egg rather then just the yolks
- I first put the yolks in as per the recipe, and added the whites AFTER I had blended in the first 1/4 cup of oil
-I used canola oil
-I mixed in the first 1/4 cup in about 5 additions, pouring then blending.
-I added the 1 cup of oil in 1/4 cup batches, adding the lemon juice to the final 1/4 cup.

It became very thick (that's good!), so I put the whole concoction into a bowl, and stirred it with a spatula. I put the whole thing in a mayonnaise bottle, and popped it in the fridge. It made 2 cups with the whites added.

The taste test was successful! The kids tasted it for me as well, and all said "yum!" {success!} It doesn't taste exactly like Hellmans Mayonnaise, but is close enough to suffice.

The recipe took less time to make then the trip to the store would have.


**note** The cookbook I have (and treasure!) had multiple printings, under two titles. "Cream of the West" was the flour in Newfoundland, and "Purity" was the flour in other parts of Canada. Both books have the same cover, which leads me to assume they have the same content inside. :)