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Mayonnaise Monte Bianco Sauce

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900).

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A historical recipe

Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross (1900).

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

  • Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.

Method

  1. To the above Mayonnaise sauce add half a cupful of stifF whipped cream just before serving.
  2. Mayonnaise Sauce ^ alia Ravigote!
  3. Take a few sprigs of tarragon, parsley, chervil, watercress, two or three chives, and a leaf of spinach or lettuce, and pound them in a mortar with some drops of lemon juice.
  4. Squeeze out the juice of the herbs, and mix it with mayonnaise sauce (as above).
  5. A few green peas will add to the colour and consistency of the sauce.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
  • Mortar and pestle
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900), printed page 124, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/leavesfromourtu01rossgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.