Ingredients

  • 12 teaspoon dry mustard
  • 14 teaspoon salt
  • 18 teaspoon cayenne or 18 teaspoon white pepper
  • 12 teaspoon caster sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 14-12 pint salad oil
  • 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar or 1 tablespoon chili vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon tarragon vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Method

  • Place the mustard, salt, pepper, sugar, a FEW drops of the vinegar and the egg YOLK in a bowl and whisk together.
  • Continue whisking and at the same time, add the oil- but ONLY a LITTLE at a time.
  • The mixture should NOT curdle NOR become too thick- (insufficient whisking, poor quality ingredients or too hasty addition of the oil will cause curdling).
  • Now add the rest of the vinegar, and the lemon juice- a LITTLE at a time, to keep the mayonaise at the right consistency.
  • NOTE: if after refrigerating, you find the mayonaise a little too thick, it may be thinned down with a little amount of cream.