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Mayonnaise Maker

For Macro Monday's "Condiment" theme. Unlike most of my prior entries, this one just sneaks in under the 3" rule. The mayonnaise maker dates from the first half of the last century.

 

The full recipe is: "An egg, two tablespoons of lemon juice or vinegar: Teaspoon each mustard salt, sugar. Dash of pepper.

Beat in thoroughly as poured from the can 1 pint Wesson Oil."

We tried it a few times, but a basic blender was a LOT less work.

 

Punctuation is pretty much per original. Wesson oil was a common cooking oil when I was growing up. Nobody had heard of canola oil and if you weren't Italian, you probably barely knew about olive oil. There was just generic "vegetable oil," bacon drippings and Crisco.

 

Main lighting was a small IKEA Jansjö gooseneck LED reading light and much experimentation with reflectors and black cards trying to bring out the letters.

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Uploaded on August 29, 2022
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