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Chapter V
Chapter V
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY
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Mayonnaise, informally mayo, is a thick
cold sauce or dressing commonly used
It also forms the base for many other sauces, such as tartar
Etymology
attested later.
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Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière rejected
rejected "mahonnaise" because Port Mahon "is not known for good
sauce before the second half of the 18th century was aioli bo.
This term was used in the 1745 recipe book Nuevo Arte de Cocina,
recipes.
Preparation
that has not boiled, some pepper and salt, and minced ravigotte,
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fillets of soles, &c. Your mayonnaise must be put to ice;
neither are you to put the members into your sauce till it
begins to freeze. Next dish your meat or fish, mask with the
yolks, with gelatine, with veal or veal brain glaze. The most
good oil: serve your sauce with good salt: serve it white or
salt water.
vigorously to disperse the oil. The oil and the water in the
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high viscosity of mayonnaise is attributed to the total strength
a small part of the total, ingredients other than the oil are
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