Bear with me as I recuperate. For now, here's yet another comment about mom and mayonnaise:
For as long as we lived in Cairo, mom made mayonnaise at home. Although local versions of mayonnaise were completely awful, mom claimed that she made the mayonnaise because purchasing mayonnaise at the prices there was a waste of money.
Is it just me, or was mom ever thrifty in anything else? There was of course, her preference for cheap (horrible) jeans. Otherwise, mom was just a big, generous spendthrift. My theory is that she made the mayonnaise so nobody could monitor exactly how much of it she ate!
Mom's mayonnaise was often very good, although she changed recipes often (did you know there were a lot of them?).
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I've started making homemade mayo and it has become Zaina's favorite. I remember mom using the 'old school' method of drizzling oil very slowly so as not to break the emulsion. She did make wonderful mayo, absolutely worthy of a mayo party.
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