Mayonnaise Dressing

Ingredients

• 1 egg yolk
• 2 gills salad oil
• 0.5 lemon
• salt
• pepper

Instructions

1. Chill a small bowl and a fresh egg. Chill your salad oil as well. If it is summer, set the bowl in cracked ice.
2. Put the yolk of the egg in the chilled bowl. Add the oil drop by drop, working it in with a fork as you add each drop. When you have added about a spoonful of oil, begin dropping in lemon juice, working it likewise into the yolk. The lemon juice will harden the egg—stir until very hard, then add more oil drop by drop, working it in with a fork.
3. Repeat this process, alternating oil and lemon juice, until you have used the juice of half a lemon and two gills of oil total. When the egg begins to curdle, add salt and pepper to taste—but do not add them until the last moment.
4. Keep and serve very cold.