Easy Homemade Cooked Mayonnaise Recipe
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Make the perfect potato salad, cabbage slaw or deviled eggs with this family recipe for homemade cooked mayonnaise.
When I say this recipe for cooked mayonnaise has been in my family for a very long time I mean A Long Time!
Grammy’s First Cookbook
I was going through a recipe box that belonged to my Grams and came across her very first cookbook! Matter of fact she wrote, “This is my first cookbook 1934”.
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Inside this cookbook I came across many memories. For one thing, seeing her hand writing and reading the recipes I almost felt like she was sitting in the same room with me as I turned every page. It was as though I could hear her voice saying every word as I was reading. I could hear her reading each recipe right along with me. It was pretty magical to say the least.
Grams would sometimes write a little something on one of the pages of a recipe like, “Best” or “Paul’s favorite”. Paul is my Gramps or should I say was my Gramps. Some of the recipes Grams would even write “Grandma’s” or “Great Gram’mas” as whom she received the recipe from. Yep, this cookbook is pretty golden to me.
Grammy’s Recipe
It would not be unusual to find a couple of the same recipes inside Grams recipe book. One would actually be written in the book binder and then there would be another one on a card as though she jotted down the recipe before actually entering it her cookbook.
There is nothing fancy about making this recipe. It is pretty simple. Just place a few ingredients in a salad shaker bottle to mix, heat on stove, add a few more ingredients and viola!
From just looking at Grams jotted down version of her cooked mayonnaise recipe, it appears this recipe actually came from her grandmother. Wow! That makes this recipe over 100 years old and maybe over 150+ years. Amazing!
Cooked Mayonnaise
Curious as I was, I wondered if this cooked mayonnaise recipe that was in my Grams cookbook was common, so I searched the web.
I found that most mayonnaise recipes use some of the same ingredients but they also have other ingredients that include olive oil, white wine vinegar, and lemon juice.
Those other recipes are good too but they are a different type of mayonnaise.
Grams cooked mayonnaise recipe is what I use in my homemade potato salad recipe. It has a deep yellow mustard color and is a tad bit sweet.
As recommended by my Grams, use this dressing on potato salad, cabbage slaw, sliced tomatoes or mix a little with egg yolks for deviled eggs. I do hope you like my Grams cooked mayonnaise recipe as I sure do!
I AM EXCITED YOU ARE VIEWING JETT’S COOKED MAYONNAISE RECIPE AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR HOW IT TURNS OUT SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO MAKE IT!
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Homemade Cooked Mayonnaise
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 Tablespoons flour
- 2 teaspoons Colman’s Dry Mustard
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 of 1/4 cup of vinegar I use Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 4 teaspoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
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In a salad shaker jar add sugar, flour, Colman's Dry Mustard and water. Shake well and put in sauce pan.
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Cook over low to medium heat. When the mixture starts to cook stir in egg yolks.
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Add 1/2 of the 1/4 cup vinegar and butter and continue cooking.
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As the mixture begins to thicken remove from heat and beat or whisk by hand until smooth.
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Stir in milk and salt.
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If mixture becomes too thick add a little more milk to get the consistency you desire.
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Use this dressing on potato salad, cabbage slaw, sliced tomatoes or mix a little with egg yolks for deviled eggs.
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Enjoy!
17 Comments
Char
Hi Jett, may I omit the mustard as I don’t have any? Thank you
Jett
Hi Char! That is a good question. I have never made this recipe without the mustard. I think omitting the mustard would give this recipe a different flavor. If you don’t have the dry mustard you can try using regular mustard.
Char
Hi Jett, thank’s for your reply! Yes I think it would taste different, I will give it a try anyway and let you know the result! 🙂
Denise
just a quick question. I see it mentions adding half of the vinegar and butter but no mention later of what to do with the other half?
Jett
Denise: Great question! For the vinegar; only fill the 1/4 cup half full and use that. Grandma had me confused too. Hope this helps. Jett.
TerryH
I have not tried the recipe, yet. Has anyone made this recipe using one of the blenders that also cooks. ie Vitamix.
Jett
Hi Terry! I have only made my mayonnaise on the stove top. If you try the Vitamix that cooks please let us know how it turns out.
Helene
Hi Jett
How long will this mayonaise last in fridge please
Many thanks
Jett
Hi Helene: Since this recipe has no preservatives it should be good in the refrigerator for at least 5 and maybe 7 days. I usually use this mayonnaise in my potato salad recipe and it has been fine. Hope this helps. Jett
Helene
Thank you for your quick reply
Very exited to have found this recipe
Just about to make it now
😊😊
Sara Gordon
Aren’t vintage recipes the best! My grandmother had a very similar mayonnaise recipe that she handed down to me, and it beats commercial mayo hands-down. Often she would save the leftover vinegar from a bottle of sweet pickles (like sweet gherkin pickles or bread and butter pickles) and use that instead of normal vinegar. It was really good! I have made this quite a few times. I would not keep it longer than about 5 days. Keep food nice and cold when you use it as an ingredient – like sandwiches or salads at picnics.
Jett
Yes, vintage recipes are quite wonderful to have around. We usually have a four day rule when it comes to leftovers of any kind. So I guess that could be five days. Wink Wink!
Thanks for the tips Sara, love the input!
Heather Bice
Hi Jett
Made your mayonnaise. Tastes amazing..but nowhere near as yellow as yours. Did you put a colour in yours.. for photography reasons?
Cheers
Heather..Australia 👍
Jett
Hi Heather! The deep yellow color comes from using farm fresh eggs. We have true free range backyard chickens. Maybe you’d like reading about our Ladies. https://jettskitchen.com/backyard-chickens/
Ken
So an 1/8 of a cup of vinegar then?
Jett
Yes, Ken. That is correct. Since this is Grandma’s recipe I went by her instructions. I take it, back in the day, there were not 1/8 cup increments but I could be wrong. Yes, if you have 1/8th cup please use it and if not use 1/2 of 1/4th cup. Wink wink.
Elizabeth Leighton
This is basically my motheer’s mayonnaise recipe; she was born in 1901 and got the recipe from her mother. For me, this is a must for devilled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, potato salad. The flavour is unique;; to me, it is true mayonnaise. Thanks for sharing it.